[Commlist] CFP on Perspectives on Indigenous language films in the Global South

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Perspectives on Indigenous Language Films in the Global South *

*(A Book Project) *

**

*Book Editors*

*Osakue Stevenson Omoera, Ph.D.*

*Faculty of Humanities, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria*

*Email: **(omoera /at/ yahoo.com)**; **(osakueso /at/ fuotuoke.edu.ng)***

*Scopus ID: 56052398700; ORCiD: **https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1086-7874***

*Web of Science ResearcherID R-7440-2019*

**

*Francoise Ugochukwu, Ph.D.*

*Research Fellow, Open University (UK); Senior Research Fellow, IFRA 
(Ibadan) Website: **https://francoiseugochukwu.academia.edu/**Email: 
**(fugochukwu /at/ yahoo.com)***

* ORCID **http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4317-5826***

Filmmaking is a contemporary development medium which can be used in 
preserving and archiving, promoting and projecting indigenous languages, 
cultures, heritages and mores of the many indigenous peoples tucked away 
in the ‘peripheries’ of 21st century global cinema. In more senses than 
one, filmmaking is about human development and human development is a 
story which is told and retold through visual aesthetics for personal or 
communal edification, enlightenment and education. Thus, film is a 
window to indigenous cultures, values and heritages which help to shape 
the consciousness of millions of people in an age where information and 
communication technologies (ICTs) reign supreme.**

Today, a lot appears to be happening in the film popular culture domain 
among the indigenous peoples in the Global South that has scarcely 
received academic attention. It is in this realization that we propose a 
book project titled “Perspectives on Indigenous Language Films in the 
Global South.” The intention here is to give a ‘voice’ to the 
‘voiceless’, give visibility to the filmmaking activities, filmmakers 
and their traditions, audiences, among other issues of the so-called 
cinematic ‘peripheries’, exploring how they stage and perform their 
indigenousness through their native films. The book shall seek to 
underscore the existence of a significant corpus of visual literature 
outside the Hollywood and Bollywood or Western paradigms. It seeks to 
open a space to discuss alternative sensibilities, sensitivities, 
aesthetics, meanings, and contexts in filmmaking.

The articles in the book are expected to address the historical, 
cultural, social, philosophical and linguistic diversities engrained in 
colonial and postcolonial realities of the Afrikaan, Akan (Twi), Bahasa 
Indonesia, Bemba, Benin (Edo), Brazilian Portuguese, Chichewa, Cuban 
Spanish,  Dagaare, Dangbe, Ebira, Esan, Epie, Ewe, Fijian, Fulani, 
Ga,Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hindi, Idoma, Igbo,  Ijaw, Itsekiri, Kanuri, 
Kasem, Kikuyu, Nembe, Nzema, Malay, Pakistani, Papiamentu, Swahili, Tiv, 
Urhobo, Xhosa, Zulu, among other peoples and languages scattered across 
the Global South. Essay contributions to the book are expected to be 
made by film scholars, filmmakers, film critics and theorists, culture 
administrators and archivists, language and green studies aficionados, 
from both the northern and southern hemispheres. Essays should be in 
12-point Times New Roman, and 7th ed. of APA referencing should be used. 
Interested contributors should send in their abstracts to the above 
emails by November 12, 2022, and full papers by March 9, 2023. The book 
is expected to be published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers, United 
Kingdom in the last quarter of 2023.


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