The Other Nollywood: The Documentary

Abstract

Against the background of one specific documentary film (Defence of a Mandate: The Oshiomole Story), this paper looks generally at the documentary film in Nigeria. By taking a backward glance o'ever travelled roads, the first section of the paper looks at the documentary tradition within the structural evolution of Nollywood. The second section anatomizes the documentary genre; and in the third section, this anatomy becomes the basis for the interrogation of the documentary film under study. The paper concludes with the argument that the documentary films of the period do indicate the rise and rise of the documentary film in Nigeria.