Nigerian Film and Mirroring the Politico-Historical Perspective of the African Culture in King of Justice and Suicide King

Abstract

Politico-historical culture of a traditional setting of African people can be seen as the collective endeavour in living, learning, developing and coming to terms with the traditional environment of people in a particular place, season and time. In any traditional African community, the aspect of governance is dependent on the enshrined customs of choosing leaders that has become part of the culture in the traditional political process. In a typical African (Nigerian) society, tradition in the realm of politics has experienced a range of disorder, tussle, sycophancy, chaos, betrayal, oppression, murder, deception, corruption, intrigues and other attendant vices. The Nigerian films have reflected much on traditional political culture in Nigeria as a way of life, which is the focus that this seminar sought to examine through the analysis of these relevant and selected Nigerian films: King of Justice and Suicide King. The objective of this paper is to assess the political culture in the African traditional setting in terms of practices and contents as being mirrored in Nigerian films. The paper proves that Nigerian films are not figments of fantasy but are possible avenues through which the political culture and traditional practices of a particular people can be mirrored for communication of positive change.