Dr. Innocent Ebere Uwah is a lecturer at the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He is a recipient of the Global Partners’ Award in Communications in 2010 (USA) and a fellow of All Africa House, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2013). He has published widely on Nollywood including a monograph: The Rhetoric of Culture in Nollywood (2013). His research interests are on the interface between representations and cultures, media and theatre education, identity constructions in films and religion communications.
PUBLICATIONS:
Uwah, I. E. “From Rituals to Films: A Case Study of The Visual Rhetoric of Igbo Culture in Nollywood Films”, PhD Thesis, Dublin City University, Published online by DORAS – http://doras.dcu.ie/14914 (2009).
Uwah, I. E. (2013) The Rhetoric of Culture in Nollywood, Owerri: Eduedy Publications.
Uwah, I. E., 2008. “Nollywood films as a site for constructing contemporary African identities: the significance of village ritual scenes in Igbo films” in African Communication Research Journal, Vol. 1, no.1. pp 87 – 112.
Uwah, I. E., 2010. “The framing of child-witches in Nollywood [religious] representations” in Journal of Inculturation Theology, CIWA, Port Harcourt. Volume 11. pp 98 -109.
Uwah, I. E. 2011. “The representation of African traditional religion and culture in Nigeria popular films” in Religion, Media and Politics Journal, Volume 5, Number 1, Belgrade, Serbia. pp 81-101.
Uwah, I. E. 2011. “Nollywood and postcolonial pan-Africanism: Deciphering the transnationality of African cultures in Nigerian popular film industry”, in AfricanCommunication Research 4(1) Volume 4. Number 1. May 2011 pp 87 – 118.
Uwah, I. E., 2011. “Ethnicity as problematique in Nigerian socio-cultural context and films” in Areopagus – Journal of Church and State. Volume 1. Number 1. June 2011, pp 81 – 98.
Uwah, I. E. 2012. “Church and media in the evolving politics of Nigeria” in The Areopagus – Journal of Church and State relations, Volume 2, Number 1. June 2012. Port Harcourt. pp 76 – 89.
Uwah, I. E., 2012. “The representation of crime and violence in Nigerian narratives: Conceptualizing the parameters of a ‘failed state?” in Journal of Literary Society of Nigeria (JLSN) Issue 4, Benin: Regal. pp 79 – 84.
Uwah, I.E., 2012. “Identity and culture in theorising African perspectives of communication: The case of African cinematic model” in Communicatio: South African Journal of Communication Theory and Research. Taylor & Francis 38 (2) pp 181 – 194.
Uwah, I. E. 2012. “Production style in Nollywood film industry: A textual analysis of This is Nollywood” in Journal of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Volume 2, No. , pp 239 – 252.
Uwah, I. E and Krama, I.C. 2012. “The playwright, director and intellectual property right ownership in the theatre” in Ikogho: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Port Harcourt, Vol. 10, No 1 & 2, January – April, pp 45 – 51.
Uwah, I. E. 2013. “Citizen journalism in the context of New Evangelisation: The place of digital social media in church communications” inJos Studies, Volume 21, June 2013, St Augustine’s Major Seminary, Jos, pp 107 – 122
Uwah, I. E. (2013). “Finding God in Nollywood Films: Establishing Pathways to Applied Contextual Theology in Nigeria” in Kiabara: Journal of Humanities. Volume 19, Number 1, pp 69 – 80.
· Uwah, I. E. “Therole of the church in human management (responding to the challenges of the 21st Century)”, Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria, 2000.
· Uwah, I. E. “Contemporary African cinema and the challenges of Nollywood, Carlow African film festival”, Ireland, 2007.
· Uwah, I. E. “The visual rhetoric of culture in Nigerian films”, School of Communications, Dublin City University, 2007.
· Uwah, I. E. “Rethinking the visual representations of Africa on films: The case of Nollywood”, Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, in University College Dublin, 2007.
· Uwah, I. E. “Exploring the link between indigenous cultures and development: Drawing lessons from Nollywood films”, Kumasi-Ghana, April, 2008.
· Uwah, I. E “Britishness’ in Nollywood: The construction of British [European] identity in Nigerian films”, International Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK, June 2008.
· Uwah, I. E. “From rituals to films: Exploring the root paradigm of Nollywood films in village cultures”, Trinity College Dublin, 2008.
· Uwah, I. E. “Re-thinking African stereotypes: The case of Nollywood representations”, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 2009.
· Uwah, I. E. “Conceptualizing the role of the media for sustainable ecology in Nigeria: The case of postcolonial African cinemas”, CIWA, 2011.
· Uwah, I. E. “Intimidation in Nigeria: A model of leadership for development?” in Hope International Magazine, Volume 4, Fourth Edition, October 2011. Pp 6 – 7.
· Uwah, I. E. “Communicating change in the New Media Age: The role of directors of communication in the church” – Workshop for Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Directors of Communications, in Jalingo, Taraba State 2011.
