Nationalism from Below: State Failures, Nollywood, and Nigerian Pidgin

The Nigerian film industry known as “Nollywood” was shaped (and even created) by profound weaknesses of the Nigerian state, but it inherited and carried forward one of the state’s major accomplishments: the creation of a national culture on and through television. This mission was reinterpreted in t...

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Main Author: Jonathan Haynes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing 2021-07-01
Series:Global Storytelling
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Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/gs/article/id/657/
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