Abstract

Within the Nigeria context of home videos, the Urhobo film is relatively new. This creates the need to seek and make some clarifications on what constitutes the Urhobo home video; as a home video shot in Urhobo language, or one that concerns the ways of life of the Urhobo people, or one shot on Urhobo soil?In discussing these parameters, this paper attempts to look at the Urhobo nation and how the filmic experience has enabled a rapprochement of its development and sustenance in the face of huge socio-political, economic and sundry challenges. The analyses of select films are expected to assess the adversarial environment which some of them reflect vis-à-vis the culture of the people in the face of contemporary global confrontations.As an emergent form, it is hoped that the home videos about the Urhobo would help to internalize the aspirations of the people even as they grapple with the demands of the Nigerian state.