This is so good. I don’t watch a lot of Nollywood movies because I dislike the way women are portrayed in a lot of films. I don’t know if our culture will ever accept that women are dynamic beings who deserve to be loved and respected— it’s almost like we can’t have both and Nollywood films are essentially telling us to pick one or the other. Lame.
This is such a good essay and I say this all the time. I find it hard to watch Nigerian movies because it’s never lacking in misogynistic tropes for women, there’s even a new movie that just came out and it’s also this holding a man down when he’s at his lowest trope. People always think it’s because I want to be different when I physically can’t finish shows like that. It’s very weird, we as a nation don’t have true feminist art in movies and books and the ones that do are Nigerians that either aren’t in Nigeria or those that spent sometime out the country and moved back it’s sad to see. I just want a movie where a single woman isn’t portrayed as desperate for love or women that want money aren’t shamed for it.
This is so good. I don’t watch a lot of Nollywood movies because I dislike the way women are portrayed in a lot of films. I don’t know if our culture will ever accept that women are dynamic beings who deserve to be loved and respected— it’s almost like we can’t have both and Nollywood films are essentially telling us to pick one or the other. Lame.
It’s really unfortunate and a missed opportunity to portray Nigerian women in our complexities.
This is such a good essay and I say this all the time. I find it hard to watch Nigerian movies because it’s never lacking in misogynistic tropes for women, there’s even a new movie that just came out and it’s also this holding a man down when he’s at his lowest trope. People always think it’s because I want to be different when I physically can’t finish shows like that. It’s very weird, we as a nation don’t have true feminist art in movies and books and the ones that do are Nigerians that either aren’t in Nigeria or those that spent sometime out the country and moved back it’s sad to see. I just want a movie where a single woman isn’t portrayed as desperate for love or women that want money aren’t shamed for it.
Absolutely! The one-dimensional trope where the woman abandons herself is played out…