The Toyin Falola Interviews: A Conversation with Tunde Kelani (Podcast, Part 1)
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This podcast features Kenneth Harrow, a distinguished Emeritus Professor of English at Michigan State University, United States, leading the interview. Professor Harrow working for many years on African cinema and literature, diaspora and post-colonial studies. He has published major books, including Threshold of Change in African literature; Less than one than double: a feminist reading of African women’s writing; Thrash: a story of Africans’ cinema viewed from below. Ken Harrow posed a series of questions to Tunde Kelani on various issues around power and the forms of power, as always characterized in his movies, especially “Saworoide”.
Tunde Kelani referenced Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s song, where he described the various forms of power and how power can be used, from the leader to the led. “Everyone has been a victim of power.”
He further explained the various aspects of modernity as described in his movie, “Abeni.” “The more you are delineated from your own culture, as a result of cultural-vacuum, anything can follow.” Kelani confessed that the United State is diverse in culture, and most Africans pick the outrageous aspects of it when they travel out and back.
Kelani talked about the invasion of American culture in Africa – that Africans no longer need to travel to America before they dress like them, speak like them and behave like them. There is now a reversion in culture from his own younger days. “At that time, we could not even attend an interview without a tie in the neck, but the problem was, I don’t know how to tie it, and I don’t want to learn it..”
Tunde Kelani jokingly confessed he has apologized to God for wearing western suit.
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Tunde Kelani is a renowned film maker, storyteller, director, photographer, cinematographer, and a movie producer. He studied Art and Technique of Filmmaking in the London International Film School, where he bagged his Diploma.
He is a promoter of Nigerian cultural heritage, and his movies have promoted and educated viewers about Nigeria’s culture. After several successful years in the Nigerian Film Industry, Kelani founded Mainframe Film & Television Productions, which was formed to document the rich culture of Nigeria, in movies.
Tunde Kelani has received several awards and recognitions in honour of his boundless works in film production and script writing.
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