Lani Akande
Assistant Professor
Lani is an Assistant Professor in the Film Department at UNCW. He teaches courses in Nigerian cinema, African cinemas, postcolonial cinema, Film Historiography. His interests include exploring the formal and aesthetic characteristics of African cinemas as a site for formulating newer and more indigenously informed theories. He is also interested in African epistemologies and philosophies, and, how they influence African understandings of cinema and the camera medium. While Nigeria's Nollywood is his primary focus, his overall work is toward the decolonization of how we think and teach film. His articles have appeared in Film Education, Journal of African Cultural Studies and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
Education
Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Arts, York University, Canada
M.A. in Communication and New Media, McMaster University, Canada
B.A. in Film Studies, Brock University, Canada