Contextual Cinemas: Screening Everydayness of Africa in Nollywood
African video-films, like performances generally capture the complexity of people’s everydayness. Apart from challenging formerly held stereotypes about the continent, they reveal the identity of Africa by underpinning key circumstantial experiences of her people. The thrust of this paper is to expl...
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| Main Author: | Innocent Ebere UWAH |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African Studies
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук |
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| Online Access: | https://africajournal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/2-2019/Uwah-Contextual.pdf |
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