THE NOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE UK
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Suman Gupta Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History
in the English Department and was joint Director of the Ferguson Centre
for African and Asian Studies, Open University from 2006-8. He initiated
the 'Nigerian Video Films and the African Diaspora in the UK' project
in 2006. He has been overseeing budgeting and expenditure for the project,
and ensuring the coherent development of the different strands of the
project. He is also currently involved in developing collaborative research
projects in India, China, Morocco, and East Europe (particularly Bulgaria
and Romania).
Françoise Ugochukwu Françoise Ugochukwu, a former Professor from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where she lectured for 25 years, is the Coordinator of the Milton Keynes end of the “Nigerian Video Films and the African Diaspora in the UK” project, keeping track of media, internet and academic publications relevant to this area in the UK and elsewhere. Based in the Faculty of Education & Languages, Open University, she is equally assisting the Ferguson Centre in gathering and organising the archive for the project, collaborating in analyzing collected data, in building the project website, in organising the workshop, and in planning the extension of the project. Habilitée à diriger des recherches and a specialist in Comparative Literature, Igbo Studies and Ethnolinguistics, she is the author of a co-authored Igbo-French-Igbo dictionary (Karthala 2004) sponsored by the French Institute in Africa, Ibadan, of two collections of edited & translated Igbo folktales (Karthala 1992 & 2006), and more than 80 articles & book chapters on the study of space, communication, alterity and literature in Igboland and the reception of Nigerian literature in France. Please follow this link for details of Professor Ugochukwu's work at the Ferguson Centre.
Tope Omoniyi Professor Omoniyi's responsibility in the Nigerian Video Films and the African Diaspora in the UK Project includes liaising with the Lagos project team and the Ferguson Centre in tracking the production, distribution and patronage of Nollywood films in London, the elicitation and analysis of data. The latter will be explored for establishing the impact that Nollywood may be having on Black and/or African British identities, and contributing same to a project workshop 9-12 August 2007. Professor Omoniyi's recent publications include 'Culture and identity shifts in the era of globalization: digitalisation, diaspora, and other concerns', in Suman Gupta, Tapan Basu, and Subarno Chattarji (eds.) India in the Age of Globalization: Contemporary Discourses and Texts (Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, 2003, pp. 353-398), 'Hip-Hop through the World Englishes len: A response to globalization' in World Englishes and Global Popular Cultures (Blackwell 2006), 'West African Englishes' in The Handbook of World Englishes (Blackwell 2006), 'Societal multilingualism and multifaithism' in Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion (John Benjamins 2006), and 'Hierarchy of Identities' in The Sociolinguistics of Identity (Continuum Books 2006). Please follow this link for details of Professor Omoniyi's work at the Ferguson Centre, or at the University of Roehampton.
Duro Oni Prof. Duro Oni is the Coordinator of the Nigerian end of
the “Nigerian Video Films and the African Diaspora in the UK”
project. He is responsible for liaising with the collaborating organisations,
supervising the collection of data in Nigeria and assisting the Ferguson
Centre in gathering an archive for the project. He is currently the Head
of the Department of Creative Arts at the University of Lagos.
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