Bob-Manuel Udokwu on Nollywood, Identity & African Storytelling

Bob-Manuel's account of Nollywood's early years turns the conversation toward questions of cultural identity and the stories a generation of Nigerian filmmakers chose to tell — and how those stories hold memory, shape belonging and carry a sense of where we come from.

The conversation speaks to something at the heart of The Reflective Shift: how the experiences and environments that shape us also shape the stories we tell, and the identities we hold.