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Confessions of a villain

Referred to as 'Nollywood's business manual' this handbook provides the ABCs of film producing, workings of a mainstream producer, and corporate Nollywood business. This handbook is loaded with illustrations and samples of how to write film and television business plans, how and who to approach for partnership, funding, film deals; and basic principles of film production management geared to equip practicing and aspiring film producers venturing into Nollywood.

Mr. Producer and the Business of Nigerian Filmmaking

“….The governor is coming tomorrow, and we have prepared another dance for him. He will get on the news again to announce all the things that he had donated to the camp. The foreign aid team will come with their own supplies too. They will come with trucks full of goods and they will come to talk to us. They will take pictures with us - and with all the things that have been donated to the camp. The newspapers will show our pictures smiling like we have been instructed to do by the camp officers when the pictures were taken. But then the store is always empty. The foods, the water, the drugs and even the mosquito nets disappear immediately their pictures have been taken. None of those things have legs! How did they walk away? The answer is simple. They took them!” 
Embers is a drama of metaphor, and perhaps the dialogue captioned above best illustrates the dilemma in that metaphor.

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…The moment Soyinka accepted to sit down to a conversation; I recognised that it would be a waste and a shame to limit our exchanges to a single, narrow aspect of his life and work ... Here was an opportunity that called for a broader consideration of his work – as an artist, intellectual and redoubtable advocate for human rights and justice. I had to seize it... His voice evinced no trace of fatigue. He answered my questions in a focused, attuned manner, his responses marked by characteristic candour and occasional acerbity...We revisited Biafra. We discussed the intersections between art and politics. He spoke about the frenetic pace of his activities and travels; his vexed relationship with Nigeria; the case for restructuring Nigeria; the uses and abuses of social media; his Olympian rages against sectarian fanaticism; his decision to destroy his green card after Donald Trump’s election as US President...

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Confessions of a villain

Mr. Producer and the Business of Nigerian Filmmaking

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The Man Lives: A Dialogue With Wole Soyinka on Life, Literature and Politics