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Accepted Paper:
Igbo royalty costumes in Nollywood: a depiction of Igbo royalty dress culture or a creation of ideological fantasies?
Emmanuel Ebekue
(Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka)
Igbo royalty dress cultures as depicted in Nollywood has become a subject of controversies. This research inquires into the Igbo royalty dress cultures as represented in Nollywood films in order to determine the place of these representations in Igbo royalty dress realities.
Paper long abstract:
Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry has massively marketed Nigerian cultural realities to global audiences. It has become a prism, a very potent medium for telling the Nigerian story in particular and the African story in general. It massively influences the construction of perspectives and perceptions with specific regard to the Nigerian Peoples and their cultures. Cultures as represented in Nollywood films have many times become subjects of controversies. The Igbo royalty dressing as most times represented in Nollyood has become one of these controversies with flaming arguments mostly bordering on authenticity, loyalty and originality. Through a contrastive study of Igbo royalty dress representations in Nollywood films and realities in Igbo royalty environments, this study aims to empirically weigh on Nollywood representations of the Igbo royalty dress culture with the view to distinguish the fantasies, realities and influences.