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by Jean-Baptiste Ndeke. Gracieux Mbuzukongira introduced me to the story behind the song,
and Anna-Maria Brandstetter discussed Congolese cosmologies and the video clip with me.
- The image of the three columns rising from the sea is probably inspired by tlc’s video
clip Waterfalls (1995), which contains a very similar image (http://www.mtv.de/musikvideos
_artist/425-tlc?video=12024-waterfalls). Axel Brandstetter drew my attention to this video. - Jennifer Shamalla, of Nairobi, who was an eyewitness to the band’s return home,
provided this information. This event is also notorious for the violent clashes between rival
groups that ensued when fans of Wenge Musica Maison Mère attacked Wenge bcbg’s entou-
rage along Kinshasa’s Boulevard Lumumba (Tsambu Bulu 2004). - vice and videos
- Several death sentences handed down to women found guilty of adultery by courts
marks an extreme of these processes. The death sentences, however, were never executed, and
the defendants in the two most prominent cases—Amina Lawal and Safiya Hussein—were
discharged and acquitted by sharia courts of appeal. - As announced on the cover of the February 2003 issue of Fim magazine: “Ali Nuhu:
Ba zan daina kwaikwayon Indiya ba.” - See, for example, the transcript of his speech, which he gave at the launch of the first
video film produced by members of the Muslim Brothers, published by the Hausa film maga-
zine Fim (Zakzaky 2001). - Spelling as in English original; quote taken from a press briefing held by Director
General Abubakar Rabo on February 11, 2008; an earlier version of the guidelines was an-
nounced by Rabo on September 21, 2007 (Sheme 2007c). - He was released in March 2009 after having served almost three months in prison; his
case was ordered for retrial (Sheme 2009b) and finally waived in October 2010 as part of a
reconciliation agreement between Iyan-Tama and Abubakar Rabo. The former had lodged a
complaint of defamation against the latter at a court in Kaduna (McCain 2010b). - dar 2 lagos
- For an account of the history and problems of celluloid filmmaking in Tanzania, see
Bryce (2010). - For more details on video narration in Tanzania, see Krings (2009), Englert and Moreto
(2010), and Groß (2010). - His articles were published in the weekly tabloid Ambha, nos. 39, 43, and 45, July/
August 2007. These stirred controversy surrounding Bongo movies’ production values and a
reply written by Sultan Tamba, who discovered that the writer had plagiarized three British
press articles about Nollywood for huge parts of his article series.
4.Nsyuka is based on a story Mussa Banzi once heard from a friend with a Nyakyusa
ethnic background (Böhme 2013). Likewise, his other films—Shumileta (2005), Chite Ukae
(2006), and Kinyamkela (2007)—are based on Tanzanian folk beliefs. - For example, Sikitiko Langu (2006), Johari (2006), and Dangerous Desire (2006), by
director Vincent Kigosi, as well as Penina—Jezebel’s Daughter (2007), by director Femi
Ogedegbe. - Nollywood films surely have their share of these stereotypes and left an imprint on the
public imagination, but jokes about Nigerians, their behavior, and their language seem to