Cosmology and World View

Fatokun, Samson Adetunji

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“…Awolalu (1996) provides details of the various kinds of sacrifices among Yoruba people. His propitiatory sacrifice (ebo e`tu`tu`), a sacrifice of atonement is the same as Fatokun's (2010) expiatory sacrifice. This sacrifice is significant for pacifying or placating the gods.…”

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October 1: Metaphorizing Nigeria’s Collective Trauma of Colonization

Ezepue,

Nwafor

2023

SAGE Open

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Analogies have been drawn between therapeutic recovery and decolonization. This will mean that one can interrogate psychological effects of trauma on cultures or nations that undergo or have undergone colonization. If decolonization is perceived a form of therapy, colonialism is adjudged potential trauma. This paper is interested in understanding how colonialism could potentially traumatize a nation or given culture. It equally explores decolonization as a form of therapy. It thus analyses the trauma of colonialism in Kunle Afolayan’s October 1 (2014). No scholarly work has been done on the analysis of colonial trauma in Nollywood film texts. This might be as a result of the paucity of film texts that speak to the theme. This paper is therefore interested in understanding how Nollywood ace filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, uses his October 1 as a metaphor to mirror the traumatic effect of colonialism on Nigeria as a nation. It explores how the film’s major characters’ relations to their traumatic pasts provide insight to Nigeria’s social history. This study attempts to visualize in Afolayan’s characters, a Nigeria traumatized by colonialism. It further envisions the possible paths to Nigeria’s survival of colonial trauma in these characters’ chosen paths to recovery. Using psychoanalysis as framework, this qualitative analysis explores decolonization as therapeutic and contributes to decolonization discourses in African film studies.

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