“Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by
this film form... shap [ing] the media landscape of Africa.”—Brian Larkin, Barnard College …

The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and
Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has …

Recent experimentation by Nollywood producers has encouraged increasing differentiation
of film practices as a strategy for contending with a demanding video market.“New …

Description: New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.| Series: Thinking cinema; volume
6| Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018028824| ISBN …

This article examines the Nigerian video-film industry from the perspective of the country's
colonial past. It begins with the premise that the development of the video-film industry can …

In Kenya, the rise of digital technologies and related new media, and an infrastructure able
to support them, has seen the emergence of a growing local video games industry and a …

In Nigeria, the weakening of the state parallels the rise of the insecurities of everyday life.
Traditional means of social promotion such as education or employment in public offices …

A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa Page
2 The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of …

This article explores the distinctively heuristic approach to Nollywood video-films used by a
Bukusu-speaking audience community in Chwele Market, Western Kenya. As this audience …

With over 2000 movies produced annually, and an estimated $200 million in US earnings in
2006, the Nigerian film industry is now the third largest in the world after those of the United …