Nollywood does not merely reflect beliefs about witches, occult powers, emere, ogbanje, spiritual spouses and demonic manipulation; through repeated representation, it also helps produce, reinforce and legitimise those beliefs. A few years ago, we spent a pleasant evening with some friends, all Nigerians. At some point, the conversation turned to so-called “African power”: the activities… Continue reading When Fiction Becomes Evidence: Nollywood (Both Christian and Secular) and the Production of Supernatural Belief
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The “spirit” in Camara Laye’s “The African Child”
I once blogged on the spirituality of the Yoruba people of South West of Nigeria (read here). As I read again The African Child by Camara Laye, it is very clear the same statement was true of the people of Guinea of his time. In this post I do a quick sweep of the the… Continue reading The “spirit” in Camara Laye’s “The African Child”
