Contents
Introduction
Foluke Ogunleye
1
In Whose Image?
Akinwumi
Isola
8
Context and Nature
of Contemporary
Nigerian (Nollywood)
Film Industry
Duro Oni
18
The Legal Environment
of the Nigerian Video Film
Olalere Oladitan 29
Marketing and Distribution
of Video Films in Nigeria
Biodun Ibitola 51
Ugandan Viewership
of Nigerian Movies
Dominica Dipio 57
Kenyan Videos: A
Director’s Experience
Wanjiru
Kinyanjui
82
The Making of Yoruba
Video Films:
An Actor’s
Experience
Gabriel A. Oyewo
91
How Video Changed
Exhibition in Ghana
Christine
Giraud
105
The Ghana Local Film Industry
Samuel Atsu
Akpo
120
Video Film in Senegal
Adams Sie
122
Women through the
Eye of the Camera: The Aesthetic
Challenge of Nigerian
Films
Mabel I.
E. Evwierhoma
125
The Image of the
Woman in Yoruba Video Films:
An Evaluation
Bunmi Olujinmi
133
Representation of
Women in Selected Zimbabwean
Films and Videos
Tendai Chari
143
Re-Inventing the
African Family through Popular
Video Film: The
Nollywood Paradigm
Taiwo Adeyemi
164
Romance with Ancient
Cultures: Re-Enacting
Archival Repertoires
in Post-Colonial African Films
Agatha Ukata 174
The African Video
Film and Images of Africa
John A. Afolabi 187
Koseegbe: A Sociological Metaphor
Displayed in an
African Film
Murtada
B. Ahmad
199
Yoruba Texts on
the Screen
Olufadekemi Adagbada
208
Nollywood and Literary/Performance
Studies
in Nigerian Universities:
A Case for School-to-Street Connection
Gbemisola
Adeoti
225
Theatre Arts Programme
and the Video Film Industry
S.J. Bankola Ola-Koyi
244
Dance, Choreography
and Nollywood
Segun
O. Oyewo
253
Africa Through the
Eye of the Camea:
Pornography or Choreography
Yeside Dosumu-Lawal
263
Beyond Entertainment:
Christian Video
Films and Evangelism
in Nigeria
Victoria
O. Adeniyi
270
Filmic Unity in
Nigerian Home Video:
Mainframe’s
Saworo Ide as a Model
Adedolapo
Adewale
282
Appendix
The African Video
Film Arts Festival: Comments
Drake Stutesman
294
Piracy in the Nigerian
Video Film Industry -
Interviews
Sunday Oginni
298
African Video Films:
Telling the African Story
Communiqué of the
African Video Film
Arts Festival 2007
286
Index
