Who Holds the Camera? 100 Years of Nigerian Cinema

In 1926, Palaver, the first feature film shot in Nigeria, was made through a colonial lens. A hundred years later, Nigeria has one of the largest film industries in the world. Clip by clip, historian Ed Keazor traces this century of Nigerian cinema and asks who held the camera, and how Nigerians took it back to tell their own stories.

Ed Keazor, historian, lawyer, writer and documentary filmmaker, Director of the Nsibidi Institute.