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Documenting Nigeria's Social and Cultural History Through Cinema: A Study of Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun and Kunle Afolayan's October 1

Documenting Nigeria's Social and Cultural History Through Cinema: A Study of Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun and Kunle Afolayan's October 1

Floribert Patrick C. Endong
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781522558408|ISBN10: 1522558403|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522587569|EISBN13: 9781522558415
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5840-8.ch010
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Endong, Floribert Patrick C. "Documenting Nigeria's Social and Cultural History Through Cinema: A Study of Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun and Kunle Afolayan's October 1." Exploring the Relationship Between Media, Libraries, and Archives, edited by Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita and Alexander M. Rusero, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 180-200. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5840-8.ch010

APA

Endong, F. P. (2019). Documenting Nigeria's Social and Cultural History Through Cinema: A Study of Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun and Kunle Afolayan's October 1. In C. Chisita & A. Rusero (Eds.), Exploring the Relationship Between Media, Libraries, and Archives (pp. 180-200). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5840-8.ch010

Chicago

Endong, Floribert Patrick C. "Documenting Nigeria's Social and Cultural History Through Cinema: A Study of Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun and Kunle Afolayan's October 1." In Exploring the Relationship Between Media, Libraries, and Archives, edited by Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita and Alexander M. Rusero, 180-200. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5840-8.ch010

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Abstract

In recent times, cinema has emerged as an alternative technology to document reality. This could be seen in the fact that both fictional and non-fictional films are increasingly deployed to chronicle various aspects of history. In the Nigerian moving pictures industry (Nollywood), this paradigm could be illustrated by the recent release of historical epic movies such as Lancelot Imasuen's Invasion 1897, Jeta Amata's Black November, Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun, and Kunle Afolayan's October 1, among others. Drawing on this relatively old trend, this chapter examines the extent to which some of Nollywood epic films are “trustworthy” records of Nigerian history. The chapter begins by examining the controversy over the nature of film as a historical document in its own right. It goes further to exploring the issue of historical film making in Nollywood and ends with a reading of Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun and Kunle Afolayan's October 1 as forms of historical films.

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