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  2. Daybreak in Udi - Wikipedia

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    Daybreak in Udi is a 1949 British documentary film directed by Terry Bishop about cultural changes in Udi, Enugu State, Nigeria. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1950. [1] [2]

  3. List of Nigerian films before 1970 - Wikipedia

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    Action, Adventure British film featuring Nigerian actor Orlando Martins: 1946: Men of Two Worlds: Thorold Dickinson: Drama British film featuring Nigerian actor Orlando Martins (uncredited) 1947: North and South of the Niger: John Page Cocumentary British black-and-white documentary 1949: Daybreak in Udi: Terry Bishop: Documentary British black ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. October 1 (film) - Wikipedia

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    Scholars have likewise addressed October 1 from the perspective of the collective trauma that colonialism has imposed on Nigeria. Ezinne Michaelia Ezepue and Chidera G. Nwafor have argued that Afolayan "advocates for decolonization" by using the film's characters as stand-ins for the psychosocial effects of British colonial rule on Nigeria. [49]

  7. History of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    From 1903, Great Britain controlled almost the entire present-day territory of Nigeria, which was united under a single administration in 1914 (in 1919, a border strip of the former German colony of Cameroon was added to the territory of Nigeria). Under the British colonial administration, purchasing cartels (of companies such as Unilever ...

  8. Lagos Colony - Wikipedia

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    Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria.Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the threat of force by Commander Beddingfield of HMS Prometheus who was accompanied by the Acting British Consul, William McCoskry.

  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.