Untying Colonial Knots Around Film in Africa: The Entrepreneurial Culture of Nollywood
Innocent Ebere Uwah — Department of Film and Multimedia, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Cinema in Africa took off as an anti-colonial movement. Its vivifying oxygen at the time was pan-Africanism as a way of giving voice to the continent while decolonizing the western gaze on screen. So long as the struggle was ideologically …