| AFRICAN VIDEO FILM ARTS FESTIVAL 2007 Concurrent Sessions A - C |
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| A. The African Video Film and its Diasporas (Concurrent Session 1) Chair: 1. Ugandan Viewership of Nigerian Movies - Dominica Dipio (Ph.D.) Makerere University Kampala 2. Theatricality in African Video Movies - Dr. Osita Okagbue Goldsmiths College, University of London. 3. Senegalese and Francophone African Video Film: Emergence and Evolution - Prof. Gorgui Dieng Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar 4. Do the West African Popular Video Films Matter? - Onookome Okome Ph.D. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta 5. Propaganda and Dialectics in Ghanaian Popular Video Movies - Taiwo Adeyemi University of Ghana, Legon. 6. The Video Film in Senegal - Adams Sie Siesky Pictures, Senegal. Rappoteur: Discussant: B. The African Video Film and the Crisis of Content (Concurrent Session 2) Chair: 1. Dance, Dance Everywhere but None to View: Dance Choreography and Nollywood - Dr. Segun Oyewo Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife 2. Directing the Nigerian Video Film - Dr. Kwaghkondo Agber Department of Theatre Arts University of Abuja, Nigeria. 3. Africa Through the Eye of the Video Camera: Pornography or Choreography - Dosunmu-Lawal Yeside Lagos State University, Department of Theatre Arts & Music. 4. Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Home Movies Narrative Technique - Julius-Adeoye & Oluwarantimi Jays Dept. of Photojournalism and Cinematography School of Communication Lagos State University Nigeria. 5. The Detonating of the Ghana Local Film Industry - Samuel Atsu Akpo Centre for Industrious and International Films in Africa, Ghana 6. Molaade: Tradition and Performative Practice in an African Postcolonial Film - Dr. Wumi Raji , Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Rappoteur: Discussant: C. The Image of Women in the African Video Film (Concurrent Session 3) Chair: 1. The Image of the Woman in Yoruba Video Films: An Evaluation.- Bunmi Olujinmi Ph.D. The Polytechnic Ibadan, Ibadan 2. The Paradox of Women Empowerment in Zimbabwean Home Videos - Tendai Chari. University of Zimbabwe 3. An Atypical Discourse on the Malecentric Portrayal of a Heroine in a Nigerian Video Film - Oyinlola Longe Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria 4. The Cultural Faces of Women in Nigerian Video Films - Praise C. Daniel-Inim Igbinedion University, Okada Rappoteur: Discussant:D. Reading the African Video Film (Concurrent Session 4) Chair: 1. Retrodiction or Retroversion: Africanist Semiotics in Yoruba and Nollywood Films, Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Ph.D. Dept of Modern European Languages, University of Ilorin. 2. Romance with Ancient Cultures: Re-Enacting Archival Repertoires in Post-Colonial African Films Agatha Ada Ukata, Discipline of African Literature, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. E-mail: adaukata@yahoo.com 3. Assessing the Place of History in the Nigerian Video Drama: A Reading of Selected Works. Niyi Adebanjo (PhD) Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun-State. 4. Home Video Film Practitioners as Agents of Socialisation. Mogbogu, Joy-Rita N and Lambe, Kayode Mustapha 5. The Making of Yoruba Video Films: An Actor’s Experience. Gabriel Adekola Oyewo PhD Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Rappoteur: Discussant: E. Auspicious Marriage of Content and Form: Akinwunmi Isola’s Art and Tunde Kelani’s Technique (Concurrent Session 5) Chair: 1. Filmic Unity in Nigerian Home Videos: Mainframe's Saworo Ide as a model. Adewale Adeolapo Department of Dramatic Arts O.A.U, Ile-Ife 2. Communication, Development and Society: A Sociological Metaphor Displayed In an African Film Story Murtada B. Ahmad Department of Mass Communication Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria. 3. The Dialectics of the Future as Embedded in Children through Film: A Study of Tunde Kelani’s Agogo Eewo Komolafe A. Michael Department of Theatre Arts and MusicLagos State University, Ojo 4. Message, Technique and Craftsmanship in Tunde Kelani’s Thunderbolt (Magun), and Agogo Eewo, Tunde Bakare 5. Tunde Kelani and the Development of a Personal Aesthetics Fagbemi Osinuga Rappoteur: Discussant: F. Town and Gown Connection: African Video Film and the Ivory Tower (Concurrent Session 6) Chair: 1. Nollywood and Literary/Performance Studies in Nigerian Universities: A Case for School-to-Street Connection. Gbemisola Adeoti (PhD) Department of English Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, Nigeria 2. African Text on the Screen: The Yoruba Film Example. Adagbada Olufadekemi Department Of Nigerian Languages and Literatures Faculty Of Arts O.O.U 3. A Crucial Lacuna: Modern Nigerian Drama and Nollywood. Ndubuisi Nnanna. Department of Theatre Arts University of Nigeria Nsukka 4. African Films and the Future of the Nigerian Community. Adeshina Vincent 5. Theatre Arts Programme and the Home Video /Film Industry. S. J. Bankola Ola-Koyi Department of Performing Arts Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago – Iwoye Rappoteur: Discussant: G. Functionalism and the African Video Film (Concurrent Session 7) Chair: 1. Recapturing a nation’s fading memory through video: An analysis of Chimurenga Files videos. Tendai Chari University of Zimbabwe, Department of Media Studies 2. Exploration and Exploitation of Home Video for Rural Development in Nigeria - Challenges and Prospects. Olufemi Onabajo (Phd) Department of Mass Communication University of Lagos, Nigeria 3. The Communicative Significance of the Film Art and its influence on the Nigerian Socio-cultural Milieu. Bolaji Ezekiel Tunde Department of Theatre Arts, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto/Ijanikin, Babagry Expressway, Lagos 4. Re- |
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5. Beyond Entertainment: Christian Video Films as Mechanism for Evangelism in Contemporary Nigeria, Victoria O. Adeniyi (Mrs.), Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
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