The authors have provided an in-depth study of Nollywood, depicting rich African cultural and traditional values, exploring the reconstruction of West African women and examining the role of online communities, making it a must-read for Nollywood fans.

Pius W. Akumbu, University of Buea, Cameroon

Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas is a quintessential and compelling interrogation of women’s identity in Nollywood films through the periscopic lenses of culture, tradition, memory, and gender.

Emmanuel Adedun, Mountain Top University

Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas represents a groundbreaking work looking at the intersectionality of gender, popular culture, and social ethics. Aside from a brilliant and critical rendering of the Hollywood melodrama phenomena, the authors provide us with a deeply human look at innovative ways in which women navigate polarities of subjectivity and objectivity, wholeness and suffering, endurance and socio-cultural fatigue on film and in real life. In what is a superb analytical framework, readers will gain entry into a world where Nollywood women's cultures of dissemblance and dissonance serve as emblematic of both particular and universal realities of community, nation, and diaspora. Read this book!

Zachery R. Williams, The University of Akron