Genevieve Nnaji’s directorial debut movie Lionheart was released worldwide on January 4th, 2019, and since then, there have been mixed to positive reviews about both its cinematic and cinematographic relevance. While the international sphere has praised the movie albeit devoid of critical, in-depth analyses of plot and central themes, those within the continent have either strongly warmed up to Lionheart or briskly waved it off. Their reasons could be justified.
Genevieve Nnaji’s Lionheart
On Nollywood’s way to churning out high-volume productions blatantly critical of sociocultural and ethnic ideologies, bastardising Afrocentric notions from spirituality to family values to cultural affinities, all on ridiculous low-budget works lacking societal relevance, it became the world’s second biggest movie industry—ahead of India’s Bollywood and only behind the United States’ Hollywood. Not by merit or quality of work but by sheer quantity produced. And in that high volume,…
