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The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the World’s largest film Industries, rapidly altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora. It has also become one of Afican culture’s most consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others.

At last, a book, which edifies the effortless grace of the Harlem of Africa!. Ibadan mesiogo…is a major collection of some of the most significant creative writers who have lived in and drawn their imaginative energies from the largest ancient city south of the Sahara within the past five decades of Nigeria’s history.

“…In the writing of the two essays in this book, I went to great lengths to press my readings of Achebe’s first novel, things Fall Apart, into service in an effort to see hopeful signs in otherwise quite bleak circumstances in Nigeria and Africa…in each of the respective readings of Achebe’s novel in these two essays, I was writing under very great pressure of one and of discursive context….I was also constrained by the pressure of etiquette, the celebration of the anniversary of Achebe’s novel being a festive occasion in which one could not afford to be seen as being too sanguine in expressing one’s bitterness about the state of things in Nigeria, Africa and the world.”