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© 2004 Faculty of
Humanities and Education
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados W.I.
Tel: (246) 417-4285/7 Fax: (246) 424-0634 Email: filmfestival@uwichill.edu.bb
Dr
Onookome Okome has made an in-depth study on the social
significance of popular video films in Nigeria. He is co-editor with
Jonathan Haynes of Cinema and Social Change in West Africa (Jos: Nigerian
Film Corporation, 1997) and author of numerous articles. He is working on
a book-length study: The Anxiety of the Local and the Video Film in
Nigeria. A peripatetic scholar, Dr. Okome has spent the last 10 years
tracking the careers of video film makers in Nigeria and Ghana; he
currently holds a position in the Department of English, University of
Alberta, Canada. 
A
distinguished archaeologist is unjustly imprisoned for failing to disclose
the disappearance of a sacred African artifact. David (UK based actor
Anthony Ofoegbu) is a foreign doctoral student who has come to do research
on missing Yoruba works of art. 