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Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy : An African Philosophy through Cinematic Storytelling

DOI zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006895
URN to cite this document: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-6895-6

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Bello, Saheed Adesumbo:
Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy : An African Philosophy through Cinematic Storytelling.
Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Bayreuth , 2023 . - VI, 17 S. - (University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers ; 35 ) (Academy reflects 9)

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Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple - Reconfiguring African Studies
EXC2052

Project financing: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Abstract

This paper develops a film-philosophy, (which I call “Ọ̀rúnmìliàn film-philosophy”), by exploring and analyzing the praxis of Ọ̀rúnmìlà oral philosophy and narrative aesthetics in an African cinematic storytelling. It defends a modest thesis by using Saworoide (dir. Túndé Kèlání’s, 1999) as an example of how the African/Nigerian filmmakers are influenced by their inherited oral philosophical traditions. It argues that the condition of philosophy that gives “presence to non-presence” (so that the living can dialogue with the dead) and “knowledge to the unknown” (in order to heal and to re-moralize the living) is central to the Ọ̀rúnmìliàn film-philosophy. The central argument is based on what I call the Ọ̀rúnmìlà “parable of Eégún” (masquerade); and the film-philosophy finds some philosophical similarities in Stanley Cavell’s The World Viewed on the one hand, and Christopher Falzon’s concept of cinema as philosophy, (which is based on Plato’s parable of the cave), on the other. The paper therefore stresses the intercultural correlation between an African film-Philosophy and the modern European/western traditions of film-philosophy. It contributes to film and philosophy scholarship by exploring the manifestations of Yorùbá/Ọ̀rúnmìlà philosophical texts in the contemporary Nigerian film as case study of how contemporary African filmmakers, like their oral artiste counterparts, continue to articulate their inherited traditions via cinematic storytelling.

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Item Type: Working paper, discussion paper
Keywords: Africa; Film; Philosophy; Storytelling; Ọ̀rúnmìlà; Yorùbá
DDC Subjects: 100 Philosophy and psychology > 100 Philosophy
700 Arts and recreation > 700 Arts
Institutions of the University: Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > African Studies
Research Institutions > Central research institutes > Institute of African Studies - IAS > Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies - BAAAS
Research Institutions > Research Units > Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Research Institutions > Collaborative Research Centers, Research Unit > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten
Profile Fields
Profile Fields > Advanced Fields
Research Institutions
Research Institutions > Central research institutes
Research Institutions > Central research institutes > Institute of African Studies - IAS
Research Institutions > Research Units
Research Institutions > Collaborative Research Centers, Research Unit
Language: English
Originates at UBT: Yes
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-6895-6
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2023 07:50
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 07:50
URI: https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/6895

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