CULTURE AND THE PORTRAYAL OF IGBO HISTORY: THE NOLLYWOOD EXAMPLE, 1992 TO 2012.

Scholars on culture history have identified culture as the people’s pride and embodiment of their worldview. But when a peoples culture becomes impinged upon by innovations, especially the exotic (introduced from outside its microcosm), disarticulations are bound to be created into their socio-cultural, political and economic history. Apart from miniscule Aboh and Onitsha, the political system in Igboland is not centrally structured, thus the saying: “Igbo Enwe Eze” (the Igbo do not have kings). This paper sought to put into proper perspective the contradiction portrayed by the majority of Nollywood movies (Igbo) on the Igbo political system, as they emphatically assert that the Igbo (pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial) operated a centralized political administration, portraying a retinue of servants, princes princesses, and non-farming palace chiefs