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Moradewun Adejunmobi

Professor, African American and African Studies
Ph.D., University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Email: madejunmobi@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-5136
Office: 2143 Hart Hall


Moradewun Adejunmobi works on Nigerian video film, now popularly known as Nollywood, and considered the third largest film industry in the world, after Bollywood and Hollywood. Areas of interest include the narrative styles associated with Nollywood, the connections between Nollywood and West African popular culture, and the difference between Nollywood productions and the kind of films usually taken as representative of African cinema outside Africa.