{"title":"“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films","authors":"Omotola Okunlola","doi":"10.1080/13696815.2023.2237910","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes representations of the value of university education, as depicted in selected Nollywood films and television serials. I analyze Tunde Kelani’s film The Campus Queen in conversation with Funke Akindele’s television serial Jenifa’s Diary, drawing out in each of them the commentaries on higher education and its uses as well as limitations. In The Campus Queen, such moments of critique are realized through instruction-driven classroom scenes, while in Jenifa’s Diary this happens through Jenifa’s adaptation of the salon as a pedagogical space. The article also shows the lines of continuity between this representation of education and the earlier Yorùbá traveling theater's didactic intentions.","PeriodicalId":45196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"284 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of African Cultural Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2237910","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
ABSTRACT This article analyzes representations of the value of university education, as depicted in selected Nollywood films and television serials. I analyze Tunde Kelani’s film The Campus Queen in conversation with Funke Akindele’s television serial Jenifa’s Diary, drawing out in each of them the commentaries on higher education and its uses as well as limitations. In The Campus Queen, such moments of critique are realized through instruction-driven classroom scenes, while in Jenifa’s Diary this happens through Jenifa’s adaptation of the salon as a pedagogical space. The article also shows the lines of continuity between this representation of education and the earlier Yorùbá traveling theater's didactic intentions.
期刊介绍：
The Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes leading scholarship on African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to Africa-based authors and to African languages. Our editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, including environmental humanities. The journal focuses on dimensions of African culture, performance arts, visual arts, music, cinema, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender. We welcome in particular articles that show evidence of understanding life on the ground, and that demonstrate local knowledge and linguistic competence. We do not publish articles that offer mostly textual analyses of cultural products like novels and films, nor articles that are mostly historical or those based primarily on secondary (such as digital and library) sources. The journal has evolved from the journal African Languages and Cultures, founded in 1988 in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. From 2019, it is published in association with the International African Institute, London. Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal also publishes an occasional Contemporary Conversations section, in which authors respond to current issues. The section has included reviews, interviews and invited response or position papers. We welcome proposals for future Contemporary Conversations themes.
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
分享
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
扫码关注我们
