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Nollywood and the Nigerian Dream: The Example of Teco Benson’s Formidable Force
- The Global South
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 122-136
- 10.2979/globalsouth.7.1.122
- Article
- Additional Information
In this essay, I examine Teco Benson’s 2002 film, Formidable Force, which was released three years after the transition from military dictatorship to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999. Specifically, I focus on how the film critiques political leadership and its insistence on patriotic and morally-responsible citizenship, as well as citizen-law enforcement collaboration as imperatives for social change in Nigeria. In proposing this reading of the film, I seek to contribute to the meager but growing body of scholarship that analyzes the socio-political issues that Nollywood films raise.