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Nollywood. Media. Religion. Culture.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Of Yorubaland and 1st Encounters with Christianity

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“What was not anticipated was the way in which the integrity of the indigenous Yoruba institutions of Abeokuta would begin to fe...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

"Living in Bondage: Breaking Free" - A Sequel

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Ramsey Nouah (L) and Kenneth Okonkwo (By BellaNaija ) – [A] sequel to Nollywood classic “Living In Bondage” is here … and it is...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Misfortune as Father of Superstition

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"I was lonely in the midst of people, thought so much that I took ill. It was a life that had no substance in it, completely vacuous ...
Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Seun Kuti: God is the Tool of Oppressors

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Straight Talk With Kadaria
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Of Religion, French Pecking Order, and Frogs

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"Deep in the [post-war 1948] countryside of Correze in the Massif Central in the middle of France ... there was a church, packed with...

"Religion Has Messed Up Many A Promising Life!"

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(By Emeka Oparah ) - Now, this is how people are being wasted!           I visited a cousin last weekend. We hadn’t seen each othe...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

The Fabric of Nigerian Weddings

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Bride Dola  Olutoye poses with her bridesmaids in traditional Nigerian attire and matching geles, a scarf or fabric folded into a...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Of Nigerians and the Lunacy of Money Rituals

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(By Temidayo Ahanmisi ) - Meanwhile we still do NOT have the tiniest shred of evidence to suggest that money rituals work. Not...

Re Religion: Instinct Leads, Reason Follows

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The "inferiority of the rationalistic level in founding belief is just as manifest when rationalism argues for religion as when it ar...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Jonathan Haynes: Pioneering Nollywood Studies

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2019 LSA DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD: JONATHAN HAYNES (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND FILM STUDIES, LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, USA) Nom...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Dave Allen on First Encounters with Religion

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Dave Allen 
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Eke, Orie, Afo, Nkwo: Igbo Market Days

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"EKE: ( taking stage vigorously and waving the ogirishi branch ) I am Eke ! First part of the whole. My day is sacred. I hold the Ea...
Friday, May 03, 2019

This Lagos: Carnivorous and Voracious

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(By Toni Kan) - "Lagos is a beast with bared fangs and a voracious appetite for human flesh. Walk through its neighbourhoods, from th...
Thursday, May 02, 2019

Lagos: A City Still Becoming

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(By   Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ) - Still Becoming: At Home In Lagos With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The novelist has lived in La...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Nollywood, Alaba Markerters, and New Nollywood

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(By Andrew Rice ) - “Most of [Nollywood] movies … are awful, marred by slapdash production, melodramatic acting and ludicrous pl...
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NollyCulture – a curating forum at the intersection of media, religion, and culture – explores Nollywood, the cinema of Nigeria, and its framings of religion and culture in contemporary Africa as well as the traditions, worldviews, and debates that inform its perspectives and representations.
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