Home video scholarship is an emerging aspect of theatre studies in Nigeria. While previous studies have been merely critical of Nigerian film practitioners’ inability to evolve an indigenous form, they have failed in prescribing necessary strategies for achieving this. This study, therefore, fills this gap by proposing devices for evolving an indigenous meta-language for the Nigerian film industry. It concludes, amongst others, that Nigerian film industry should evolve an indigenous film language through a fusion of traditional story telling forms and conventional film codes.Key words: Film; Indigenization; Yoruba video film; Aesthetics Resumé: La bourse du Home vidéo est un aspect émergent des études théatrales au Nigéria. Les études pr...
The media is a mirror of the society. Like other movie industries in the world, Nollywood, (the Nige...
The popularity and viewership of Nollywood films have expanded across African countries as well as E...
This paper aims at focusing on the main linguistic features of the Nigerian video-film industry, kno...
This treatise explores the attempts of three prominent Yoruba video-filmmakers to deculturize the fi...
Film is a powerful medium that can be used in transmitting different ideologies and preserving cultu...
Nigeria has no developed tradition of screenwriting and films tend to be built on principles and tec...
Le récit des vidéos yoruba-chrétiennes face à l’imagination indigène : dialogue et joute narrative. ...
Production of video films in Nigeria have risen fast to become a vital and dynamic medium of enterta...
The study examines two selected Yorùbá movies, focuses on the oral tradition, feelings, and messages...
Beyond the more popular indigenous movie industries from the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria; H...
Hausa film industry plays a great role in developing the cultural heritage of the Hausa community es...
Hyginus Ekwuazi, Jonathan Haynes and Onookome Okome have written excellent accounts of the history o...
The original aim of Nollywood as a film industry was to take full responsibility of the art form, ar...
This paper explores the drama written in indigenous African languages across many countries in Afric...
Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, has three big tribes: Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa. It was a British colony...
The media is a mirror of the society. Like other movie industries in the world, Nollywood, (the Nige...
The popularity and viewership of Nollywood films have expanded across African countries as well as E...
This paper aims at focusing on the main linguistic features of the Nigerian video-film industry, kno...
This treatise explores the attempts of three prominent Yoruba video-filmmakers to deculturize the fi...
Film is a powerful medium that can be used in transmitting different ideologies and preserving cultu...
Nigeria has no developed tradition of screenwriting and films tend to be built on principles and tec...
Le récit des vidéos yoruba-chrétiennes face à l’imagination indigène : dialogue et joute narrative. ...
Production of video films in Nigeria have risen fast to become a vital and dynamic medium of enterta...
The study examines two selected Yorùbá movies, focuses on the oral tradition, feelings, and messages...
Beyond the more popular indigenous movie industries from the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria; H...
Hausa film industry plays a great role in developing the cultural heritage of the Hausa community es...
Hyginus Ekwuazi, Jonathan Haynes and Onookome Okome have written excellent accounts of the history o...
The original aim of Nollywood as a film industry was to take full responsibility of the art form, ar...
This paper explores the drama written in indigenous African languages across many countries in Afric...
Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, has three big tribes: Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa. It was a British colony...
The media is a mirror of the society. Like other movie industries in the world, Nollywood, (the Nige...
The popularity and viewership of Nollywood films have expanded across African countries as well as E...
This paper aims at focusing on the main linguistic features of the Nigerian video-film industry, kno...