Assessment Of Roles Of Nollywood Movies In Preservation And Diffusion Of Benin Culture

ABSTRACT The Benin culture is one of the great historical African cultures which have lost its values to westernization. Amongst other media related preservative tools, movies have been found to be one of the best ways to educate, influence and preserve culture and this is why this research was conducted to study the role of Nollywood movies in the preservation and diffusion of the Benin culture. Although several attempts have been made by researchers to study the cultural preservation of different ethnic groups through Nollywood movies, none of them was found to have adequately put Benin cult…