Osakue Stevenson Omoera
Biographic Data
| ID | 642186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Osakue Stevenson Omoera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Osakue Stevenson |
| FAMILY NAME | Omoera |
| SIGNATURE | OMOERA O S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambrose Alli University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1086-7874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deceptive online advertising: An exploratory study of TikTok advertisements in Nigeria
The study investigated the deceptiveness of online advertisements on TikTok in Nigeria, their socio-economic impact on university students in Bayelsa State, and adherence to ethical standards. The study was grounded in the Nudge Theory, supported by Persuasion Knowledge Model, and adopted quantitative and qualitative methods. The study population comprised students of Federal University Otuoke (Federal government-owned), Niger Delta University, W…
Framing Gender Issues in Selected Nollywood Narratives
The resonance of debates and criticisms by media and feminist scholars about the huge disparity characterising the depiction of male and female gender in film narratives has necessitated the need to re-examine the representation of both genders in film narratives. Employing the mixed research modalities of content analysis, sampling, historicocritical, and key informant interview methods, this study investigates the framing of gender issues in se…
Sahara Reporters and Premium Times online coverage of the Russia–Ukraine war
Purpose The mass media have continued to be significant news sources for human society, particularly during conflict and war. The media dependency theory posits that during crisis or instability, society relies more on traditional and new media to help it understand the developments in the war. This article investigated the frequency of the coverage of the Russia–Ukraine War by Sahara Reporters and Premium Times , ascertained the most dominant to…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Implications of Netflix’s Venture into Nollywood Seen From a Local Audience Perspective
Within the last decade alone different distribution platforms have emerged in the Nigerian movie industry. One of the most notable and potent among these is Netflix. Employing Disruptive Innovation Theory ( dit ) as notional scaffolding, this article uses key informant interviews ( kii ) and focus group discussions ( fgd ) to examine what Netflix’s engagement in Nollywood means in terms of the viability of other distribution outlets. It investiga…
Female Representation in Select Films of Frank Rajah Arase: Evidence of Male Chauvinist Tendencies in the Ghanaian Film Culture
There has been constant resonance of feminine image misrepresentation in most narratives since the (re)invention of video-films in Nigeria, Ghana, and indeed across the African continent. In spite of the binary struggle between the (presumed) chauvinist filmmakers and their feminist counterparts, masculinity always (re)emerges in new forms or topoi to dominate femininity. Consequently, there seems to be a paradigm shift on the (mis)representation…
Politics of Succession in Nollywood Films, Saworoide and Ikoka
Employing the media representation theory, this article uses the historical-analytic, key informant interview (KII) and observation methods to interrogate the issue of politics of succession in Nigeria as portrayed in Saworoide (1999, dir. Tunde Kelani) and Ikoka (2004, dir. Peddie Okao). Apart from highlighting the kind of challenges which politics evokes in the country and the possible ways of remediating them in a contemporary context, the stu…
The River Goddess and Melody-Makers in Nigeria: A Cultural View on Majek Fashek and Victor Uwaifo
The art of music-making is a mental/creative activity. However, spiritual influence cannot be ruled out in the process of constructing music. The mental activity is akin to the deployment of the intellect, while the spiritual influence could be as a result of a direct encounter or impartation by a spirit being through dream/vision as typified by two Nigerian performing artists, Majek Fashek and Victor Uwaifo, who are the foci of this study. Explo…
Benin Video-film: A Case for the Documentary Genre
Although Onions Edionwe’s films, such as Echoes of a Kingdom, Arousa N’ohuan-ren, and Aisiokuoba, are notable documentaries, they represent an “insignificant” component of the total number of movies that have been made in the Benin or Edo language film section of the Nigerian film culture (Nollywood). A critical review of the Benin video culture indicates that a majority of the Benin film content creators tend to ignore the documentary genre. Thi…
The Nigerian Film Plot: Motion without Movement
The Nigerian film industry, otherwise known as Nollywood, has been acknowledged to be the second-largest in the world in terms of volume of production. This fact presents an interesting vista worthy of investigation, especially with regard to the quality of the films produced. It is in respect of this premise that this article examines the plot of the Nigerian film—a feature capable of affecting the popularity of the film. The essay, having dwelt…
Social media platforms of reality drama: A study of selected Facebook accounts
This article undertakes a linguistic description of the spontaneous and ‘on-demand’ conversational language on social media platforms, using some Facebook accounts to explicate its pedagogical and aesthetic values from the premise that art is both instructive and entertaining. The spontaneous and on-demand conversational language of the Facebook is what this article refers to as ‘real-time’ language. This has become a major part of the inherently…
An Assessment of the Economics of the Benin Language Film in Nigeria
View correction statement:Corrigendum Additional informationNotes on contributorsOsakue Stevenson OmoeraOsakue Stevenson Omoera teaches in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria, and has done extensive work on the culture and practice of Nigerian video cinema
Audience reception of the Benin language video film in Nollywood
This article inquires into the Benin-speaking audience's reception of Benin video films in order to show their status as part of a micro-national film culture in Nollywood. It holds that, apart from films of English expression, Nollywood films have been made in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Nupe, Benin, among other indigenous languages. The article argues that, although studies on Nollywood are increasing by the day, very few of these studies deal with qu…
Bridging the Gap: Answering the Questions of Crime, Youth Unemployment, and Poverty through Film Training in Benin, Nigeria
There is a connecting link between poverty, unemployment, youth restiveness and development in Nigeria. Among the Millennium Development Goals' (MDGs') target of 2015 is poverty alleviation and wealth creation in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing areas of the world. In a recent publication, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has identified the burgeoning video film industry in Nigeria as a veritable small and me…
The Democratisation Process and the Nigerian Theatre Artiste
This paper examines the issue of democratisation and the role of the theatre artiste in the Nigerian context. It adopts the historical and analytical methods to argue that an enhancement of the social condition is necessary for the nurturing of a true democracy, characterized by a robust political atmosphere which ultimately engenders socioeconomic and socio-cultural development of society. In doing this, it attempts to provide answers to certain…
Video Film and African Social Reality: A Consideration of Nigeria-Ghana Block of West Africa
Today, video film as a form of media production is very popular in Nigeria and indeed in much of Africa. Nigerian video films, especially those produced in English; enjoy considerable patronage in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Kenya Zimbabwe, England, USA, Italy and many other places. Along with this growing acceptance are questions as regards the video film evolution in the West African sub region. Against this backdrop, the paper adopts the historica…
Igue Ceremony as a Theatrical Performance: An Appraisal
The paper examines Igue ceremony, which is an annual religious and cultural event celebrated by the Benin speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. As a communal and spiritual activity, the Benins mark Igue with pomp. Within this context, the paper adopts the historical and descriptive approaches as its method of contending that some events during Igue are colourful theatrical performances. It concludes that the artistic performances present as well…
Audience reception of the Benin language video film in Nollywood
This article inquires into the Benin-speaking audience's reception of Benin video films in order to show their status as part of a micro-national film culture in Nollywood. It holds that, apart from films of English expression, Nollywood films have been made in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Nupe, Benin, among other indigenous languages. The article argues that, although studies on Nollywood are increasing by the day, very few of these studies deal with qu…
Politics of Succession in Nollywood Films, Saworoide and Ikoka
Employing the media representation theory, this article uses the historical-analytic, key informant interview (KII) and observation methods to interrogate the issue of politics of succession in Nigeria as portrayed in Saworoide (1999, dir. Tunde Kelani) and Ikoka (2004, dir. Peddie Okao). Apart from highlighting the kind of challenges which politics evokes in the country and the possible ways of remediating them in a contemporary context, the stu…
An Assessment of the Economics of the Benin Language Film in Nigeria
View correction statement:Corrigendum Additional informationNotes on contributorsOsakue Stevenson OmoeraOsakue Stevenson Omoera teaches in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria, and has done extensive work on the culture and practice of Nigerian video cinema
Video Film and African Social Reality: A Consideration of Nigeria-Ghana Block of West Africa
Today, video film as a form of media production is very popular in Nigeria and indeed in much of Africa. Nigerian video films, especially those produced in English; enjoy considerable patronage in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Kenya Zimbabwe, England, USA, Italy and many other places. Along with this growing acceptance are questions as regards the video film evolution in the West African sub region. Against this backdrop, the paper adopts the historica…
Igue Ceremony as a Theatrical Performance: An Appraisal
The paper examines Igue ceremony, which is an annual religious and cultural event celebrated by the Benin speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. As a communal and spiritual activity, the Benins mark Igue with pomp. Within this context, the paper adopts the historical and descriptive approaches as its method of contending that some events during Igue are colourful theatrical performances. It concludes that the artistic performances present as well…
Video Film and African Social Reality: A Consideration of Nigeria-Ghana Block of West Africa
Today, video film as a form of media production is very popular in Nigeria and indeed in much of Africa. Nigerian video films, especially those produced in English; enjoy considerable patronage in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Kenya Zimbabwe, England, USA, Italy and many other places. Along with this growing acceptance are questions as regards the video film evolution in the West African sub region. Against this backdrop, the paper adopts the historica…
The Democratisation Process and the Nigerian Theatre Artiste
This paper examines the issue of democratisation and the role of the theatre artiste in the Nigerian context. It adopts the historical and analytical methods to argue that an enhancement of the social condition is necessary for the nurturing of a true democracy, characterized by a robust political atmosphere which ultimately engenders socioeconomic and socio-cultural development of society. In doing this, it attempts to provide answers to certain…
Bridging the Gap: Answering the Questions of Crime, Youth Unemployment, and Poverty through Film Training in Benin, Nigeria
There is a connecting link between poverty, unemployment, youth restiveness and development in Nigeria. Among the Millennium Development Goals' (MDGs') target of 2015 is poverty alleviation and wealth creation in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing areas of the world. In a recent publication, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has identified the burgeoning video film industry in Nigeria as a veritable small and me…
An Assessment of the Economics of the Benin Language Film in Nigeria
View correction statement:Corrigendum Additional informationNotes on contributorsOsakue Stevenson OmoeraOsakue Stevenson Omoera teaches in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria, and has done extensive work on the culture and practice of Nigerian video cinema
Audience reception of the Benin language video film in Nollywood
This article inquires into the Benin-speaking audience's reception of Benin video films in order to show their status as part of a micro-national film culture in Nollywood. It holds that, apart from films of English expression, Nollywood films have been made in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Nupe, Benin, among other indigenous languages. The article argues that, although studies on Nollywood are increasing by the day, very few of these studies deal with qu…
Social media platforms of reality drama: A study of selected Facebook accounts
This article undertakes a linguistic description of the spontaneous and ‘on-demand’ conversational language on social media platforms, using some Facebook accounts to explicate its pedagogical and aesthetic values from the premise that art is both instructive and entertaining. The spontaneous and on-demand conversational language of the Facebook is what this article refers to as ‘real-time’ language. This has become a major part of the inherently…
Benin Video-film: A Case for the Documentary Genre
Although Onions Edionwe’s films, such as Echoes of a Kingdom, Arousa N’ohuan-ren, and Aisiokuoba, are notable documentaries, they represent an “insignificant” component of the total number of movies that have been made in the Benin or Edo language film section of the Nigerian film culture (Nollywood). A critical review of the Benin video culture indicates that a majority of the Benin film content creators tend to ignore the documentary genre. Thi…
The Nigerian Film Plot: Motion without Movement
The Nigerian film industry, otherwise known as Nollywood, has been acknowledged to be the second-largest in the world in terms of volume of production. This fact presents an interesting vista worthy of investigation, especially with regard to the quality of the films produced. It is in respect of this premise that this article examines the plot of the Nigerian film—a feature capable of affecting the popularity of the film. The essay, having dwelt…
The River Goddess and Melody-Makers in Nigeria: A Cultural View on Majek Fashek and Victor Uwaifo
The art of music-making is a mental/creative activity. However, spiritual influence cannot be ruled out in the process of constructing music. The mental activity is akin to the deployment of the intellect, while the spiritual influence could be as a result of a direct encounter or impartation by a spirit being through dream/vision as typified by two Nigerian performing artists, Majek Fashek and Victor Uwaifo, who are the foci of this study. Explo…
Politics of Succession in Nollywood Films, Saworoide and Ikoka
Employing the media representation theory, this article uses the historical-analytic, key informant interview (KII) and observation methods to interrogate the issue of politics of succession in Nigeria as portrayed in Saworoide (1999, dir. Tunde Kelani) and Ikoka (2004, dir. Peddie Okao). Apart from highlighting the kind of challenges which politics evokes in the country and the possible ways of remediating them in a contemporary context, the stu…
Female Representation in Select Films of Frank Rajah Arase: Evidence of Male Chauvinist Tendencies in the Ghanaian Film Culture
There has been constant resonance of feminine image misrepresentation in most narratives since the (re)invention of video-films in Nigeria, Ghana, and indeed across the African continent. In spite of the binary struggle between the (presumed) chauvinist filmmakers and their feminist counterparts, masculinity always (re)emerges in new forms or topoi to dominate femininity. Consequently, there seems to be a paradigm shift on the (mis)representation…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Implications of Netflix’s Venture into Nollywood Seen From a Local Audience Perspective
Within the last decade alone different distribution platforms have emerged in the Nigerian movie industry. One of the most notable and potent among these is Netflix. Employing Disruptive Innovation Theory ( dit ) as notional scaffolding, this article uses key informant interviews ( kii ) and focus group discussions ( fgd ) to examine what Netflix’s engagement in Nollywood means in terms of the viability of other distribution outlets. It investiga…
Sahara Reporters and Premium Times online coverage of the Russia–Ukraine war
Purpose The mass media have continued to be significant news sources for human society, particularly during conflict and war. The media dependency theory posits that during crisis or instability, society relies more on traditional and new media to help it understand the developments in the war. This article investigated the frequency of the coverage of the Russia–Ukraine War by Sahara Reporters and Premium Times , ascertained the most dominant to…
Framing Gender Issues in Selected Nollywood Narratives
The resonance of debates and criticisms by media and feminist scholars about the huge disparity characterising the depiction of male and female gender in film narratives has necessitated the need to re-examine the representation of both genders in film narratives. Employing the mixed research modalities of content analysis, sampling, historicocritical, and key informant interview methods, this study investigates the framing of gender issues in se…
Deceptive online advertising: An exploratory study of TikTok advertisements in Nigeria
The study investigated the deceptiveness of online advertisements on TikTok in Nigeria, their socio-economic impact on university students in Bayelsa State, and adherence to ethical standards. The study was grounded in the Nudge Theory, supported by Persuasion Knowledge Model, and adopted quantitative and qualitative methods. The study population comprised students of Federal University Otuoke (Federal government-owned), Niger Delta University, W…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Art (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · History (7 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)