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2. Palaver (1926 film) - Wikipedia

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   Palaver, otherwise known as Palaver: A Romance of Northern Nigeria, is a 1926 silent film shot in British Nigeria; it is recognized today as the first Nigerian feature film. [ 1 ] The film was significant for its use of non-professional local Nigerians as actors.

3. List of films featuring colonialism - Wikipedia

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   A Nigerian who works as a clerk for the British colonial civil service and adopts the style of the British colonialists in the belief that he is a true Englishman. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike: 1995 A film about Dutch colonialism in Indonesia during the early 20th century. The Naked Prey: 1966 An adventurer in colonial Africa is hunted by an ...

4. Colonial Nigeria - Wikipedia

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   British colonialism created Nigeria, joining diverse peoples and regions in an artificial political entity along the Niger River. The nationalism that became a political factor in Nigeria during the interwar period derived both from an older political particularism and broad pan-Africanism , rather than from any sense among the people of a ...

5. Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman - Wikipedia

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   Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...

6. Half of a Yellow Sun (film) - Wikipedia

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   The film is interspersed with archival stock footage of television news broadcasts of political events in Nigeria. After completing their university education in the United Kingdom and United States, twin sisters Olanna and Kainene return to Nigeria. Their father is the Igbo Chief Ozobia, a wealthy businessman who owns assets in Port Harcourt.

7. October 1 (film) - Wikipedia

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   October 1 is a 2014 Nigerian thriller film written by Tunde Babalola, produced and directed by Kunle Afolayan, and starring Sadiq Daba, Kayode Olaiya, and Demola Adedoyin.. The film is set in the last months of Colonial Nigeria in 19

8. William Sellers (colonial officer) - Wikipedia

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   William Sellers was a British colonial health official who introduced experimental instructional methods and propaganda to Nigerian cinema.Sellers was the first director of the Colonial Film Unit, a unit initially developed to explain World War II to the African audience and build war support in the colonies [1] but later became a medium for backing colonial development and the British way of ...

9. Filmmaking in Colonial Nigeria - Wikipedia

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   Film as a medium first arrived Nigeria in the late 19th century, peephole viewing of motion picture devices. [1] These were soon replaced in the early 20th century with improved motion picture exhibition devices; the first set of films shown in Nigerian theatres were Western films, with the first film screened at Glover Memorial Hall in Lagos from 12 to 22 August 1903.