A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. Cinematic Independence traces the
emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in
Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following
independence, beginning a long history of interventions by
Hollywood and corporate America. The 1980s and 1990s saw a
shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by
television and direct-to-video movies. However, after 1999, the
exhibition sector was revitalized with the construction of
multiplexes. Cinematic Independence is about the
periods that straddle this disappearing act: the immediate decades
bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after
1999. At stake is the Nigerian postcolony’s role in global
debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was
eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not
simply an achievement of commercial real estate, but also a
testament to cinema’s persistence—its capacity to stave off
annihilation or, in this case, come back from the dead.
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