My research centres on African film and screen media, with particular focus on Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry. My work examines the intersection of screen texts, industry practices, and experiences of everyday city life in the Global South.

My book, Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life (2023), appears in the African Perspectives Series at University of Michigan Press. It explores the relationship between Nigerian screen media and the city of Lagos. I contend that scholarship on American and European city cinema has installed a normative notion of cinema and the city that excludes the particularity of cities in the global South and the place of screen media within them. To address this omission, my project models its critical method after three key dynamics of city life: ambivalence, entanglement and enclosure. These concepts in turn guide my study of Nollywood’s production, distribution and exhibition in Lagos, as well as my interpretation of celluloid films, television programs, video films, and streaming content produced in or about the city. The book ultimately reveals Nollywood’s emplacement within Lagos, and the telling ways city life become enregistered in screen texts.

My research in Lagos has received support from a Fulbright Fellowship (2012-13) and a West African Research Association Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018).

Prior to joining the University of Bristol in 2022, I was a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies--Mona, Jamaica where I co-founded and coordinated the BA in Film Studies degree programme. My research and teaching there included African and Caribbean film and literature.