Nollywood Chronicles

Abstract

This chapter addresses Nollywood's missing or “migrant” archives and how they have shaped popular and scholarly accounts of the industry over the past several years. How do we watch, teach, and write about Nollywood in the context of its simultaneous disappearance and proliferation? How might the practice of media archeology, which builds upon the new historicism of the 1980s, enable us to write alternative histories of Nollywood based precisely on the material formats, social practices, and representational techniques that are typically ignored in scholarship on African cinema?

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