TITLE:

BIG-MANISM AND JUJU IN THE URBAN SPACE OF NIGERIAN VIDEO FILMS

Author:

Verónica de Quevedo Revenga

Institution:

Universidad de Oviedo

E-mail:

veroquevenga@hotmail.com  

In this paper I show how Nigerian Urban Video Films portray the contemporary city as a place dominated by big men and women’s desire of economic success and rampant materialism. Big men and women are subject to the egotistical desire to succeed and to the power of money (unya ukwu) and in the videos they rely on magic and juju to become richer and richer.