Extreme Feminist’s Revolt in Selected Yoruba Nollywood Films
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2020-01
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Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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The paper investigates the
construction of feminist revolt and gender
contest in Adeshina’s Married Life,
Alabi’s The Queen, and Soneye’s Ogun Ife – three selected Yoruba-Nollywood films.
The research is a revisit to the African
aboriginal assumption that women should
be silent in society and accept patriarchal
excesses as their fate. As theoretical guide,
the study is motivated by Thomas
Carlyles’s The Great Man Theory, which
emphasizes the supremacy of the male
gender in social leadership, and Molara
Ogundipe-Leslie’s Stiwanism which uses
the African variant of the feminist
ideology to request the inclusion of
women in the development of Africa. The
study notes that the civilization that came
with the millennium in Africa two decades
ago is marked by much efficient Internet
use and progressively the use of smart
phones, tablets phones and social media.
This has made some African women
pursue the rights of women through the
feminist
advocacy
more ruthlessly
involving violence and disingenuousness.
This is as presented in the films
interrogated for the study. The reactions of
the women in the interrogated films are
extreme belligerent responses. They
gradient towards violent rejection of the
African traditional belief that women
should be silent and tolerant in spite of the
discomfort inflicts on them by the society.
The attitude of women in the films studied
suggests the traditional African woman’s
meekness has always been a sacrifice to
attain gender harmony with men.
Key words: Gender, revolt, Patriarchy,
Nollywood, Stiwanism