THE ICONOGRAPHY OF BELLIGERENT ATROCITIES IN NIGERIA AND NOLLYWOOD VIDEO- AND NOLLYWOOD VIDEO-FILMS

This article examines parallelisms between Nollywood representations and Nigeria’s socio-cultural landscapes in the area of violence. By means of nuanced textual analysis of films like Somewhere in Africa (2012), Act of Faith (2008) Onyebuchim (2010) Crude War (2011) and King of Crude (2011) it explores how symbols of belligerent atrocities are used to underpin Nigeria’s crisis-ridden situations while unveiling the iconography and vocabularies of satire used in interrogating the country’s existential circumstances. The article at the end calls for a rethink on the confounding challenges of the nation while conceptualizing ways of overcoming the quagmires