Showing posts with label Scholarly critique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scholarly critique. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Nollywood and Nigerian Scholarship

Emem Isong; source: pinterest.com
(Isiguzo Destiny)--Nollywood is over 20 years; yet many Nigerian scholars are not keen on using Nigerian films as references for their researches. What is the way forward?
In a survey this reporter took in University of Lagos on 2014/2015 session final year projects students, it was shocking to discover that most of the literary and theatre art students centered their research on creative literature e.g. novel, play, poetry, and literary criticism and there was an overwhelming neglect on Nigerian motion pictures.