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| Precious Oyelade; source: voice-online.co.uk |
(The Voice)--A CAMBRIDGE graduate has impressed academics with her
dissertation on Nigeria’s flourishing film industry, better known as Nollywood,
to the extent that she secured a first-class rated paper that is set to be
published.
Precious Oyelade, from south London, defied the
statistics to graduate with a degree in politics, psychology and sociology from
Britain’s leading university with her dissertation, Changing representations of
Nigerian identity: An exploration through Nollywood and its audience.
Oyelade, whose parents hail from Nigeria, was inspired
by her heritage to explore a new narrative in her 10,000-word paper that fed
directly into her final degree grade.
“For me it was the issue of identity. I really wanted to
look at how Nollywood impacts those who have grown up in the diaspora, who
identify as Nigerian but still see themselves also as British and what distance
exists between us and those in Nigeria in relation to film,” the 21-year-old
explained.
“In my study, I found that we as a diaspora have the
choice and an ability to decide which part of our identity we want to focus
on.”
