Round Table: Nollywood, Religion, and Media

In collaboration with the Nollywood Media and Research Center (NOMAREC), Lagos, the Department of Communication Studies at the Catholic Institute of West Africa (CIWA), Port Harcourt, Nigeria, hosted a most engaging and insightful virtual round table on Nollywood and the media, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 to explore the rich and deep relationship between cinema and religion by discussing, on the one hand, Nollywood and the impact of religion on its films and filmmakers and, on the other hand, the place and role of the media in reporting the industry.

Ten Years On, Toast for Nkoli and Azuh Arinze

Nkoli and Azuh Arinze

(Sam Kargbo)--Oscar Wilde was definitely not a friend of the marriage institution. According to him, marriage is the best way to end a beautiful friendship. It is the road to lifelong loneliness and grief. He so despises the institution that he recommended it only for the cowards. In his view all men at heart do not marry. His parent's marriage may not have even made sense to him as he saw marriage playing the opposite of what love does for mankind.  

If Azuh Arinze ever read this mischievous character, then he must have done so long after he had developed a sixth sense that defines his manliness in terms of the allegiance he has for the first institution established by God after the creation of man (With due apology to non Christians). Contrary to Wilde's claim that the ideal marriage is the one of which the man is deaf and woman is blind, or that marriage is the last refuge for the impotent, Azuh must have enjoyed the good company of clear sighted and virile friends with successful marriages. With the likes of the Teco Bensons as friends, Azuh was sure to make his parents and the society proud.