Type of Resource:
Book Chapter

Year of Publication:
2016

Indicators:
- Trends


Themes:
- Internet Or Digital Rights and Freedoms

Author(s): NOAH A. TSIKA

In april 2013, Nigerian YouTube user 234 pulse, whose channel is devoted almost entirely to pirated footage of real and simulated sexual acts—footage lifted from sources as diverse as private smartphone recordings, porn websites, satellite telecasts, and commercial DVDs—uploaded a clip of a key scene from the Nollywood filmPregnant Hawkers(Patrick Hogan and Okechukwu Ifeanyi, 2013), in which a beautiful young man anally penetrates another. Like many of the user’s other videos, the clip fromPregnant Hawkersis visibly the product of piracy: captured at a canted angle and within a shaky frame, on an apparently handheld...

URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2005v0x?turn_away=true&Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=internet&searchText=censorship&searchText=in&searchText=africa&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fpagemark%3DcGFnZU1hcms9NA%253D%253D%26amp%3Bsd%3D2013%26amp%3BsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bed%3D2019%26amp%3BQuery%3Dinternet%2Bcensorship%2Bin%2Bafrica&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A7fbea93b532f7f514dd8a1237db09dbf

Region of Study:
West Africa,

Country of Study:
Nigeria,

Study Quality
High