Five Nigerian Movies

Five Nigerian Movies, their Directors, Dates of Production, Locations, main characters, and a summary of the story

 1.      White waters:

·         Directed by: Izu Chukwu

·         Main Characters:

1)      O. C. Okeje         as Melvin

2)      Joke Silva            as Grandma

3)      Rita Dominic      as Norlah

4)      Hodom Suk         as Banji

·         Story: A young boy abandoned by his mother and step father, because of his inability to learn. He is taken to the village to be with his grandmother who is asthmatic. He constantly has to run to the doctor to get drugs for his grandmother, so he develops the skill of running. His potential is soon discovered and he becomes a champion against all odds.

1. 2.      In the Cupboard:

·         Directed by: Desmond Elliot

·         Year of Production: 2012

·         Location: Nigeria

·         Main Characters:

1)      Ini Edo     

2)      Uti Nwanchukwu

3)      Biola Segun Williams

·         Story: A family built on wrong values and a web of deceit is torn apart by the truth at the will reading of the late father of the Family. Each individual in the family except the last child kept a dirty secret to himself. After the will reading, however, they each had to unveil their secrets, this got the situation worse and they never wanted to see each other again. After much grief however, they decide to come together, and pick up the pieces of their family life, and continue as is nothing had happened.

1. 3.      Mrs. Somebody:

·         Directors: \Desmond Elliot and Tom Robson

·         Year of Production: 2012

·         Location: Nigeria

·         Main Characters:

1)      Uche Jumbo  as Kaira

·         Story: A young lady gets frustrated of her single life at thirty, and tries to seek God for help. She however interprets the help wrongly and gets into trouble in her next two relationships. This hurt blinds her and when the right man comes her way, she sees him just like the other. She however soon realizes her wrong, and they get back together and get married.

1. 4.      Bed of Roses:

·         Directed By : Pascal Amanfo

·         Year of production : 2011

·         Location: Ghana

·         Main Characters

1)      Majid Michael      as Jason

2)      Martha Ankomah as Zina

3)      Adjetey Anang     as Dennis

4)      Yvonne Okoro      as Ella

·         Story, it is a movie that teaches life lessons with practical examples - Life is a script, life is a puzzle, those who live by the sword shall die by the sword, life is a dice, and so on.

            The story is about a girl who spends her life destroying homes and even that of her step sister. She tries to turn a new leaf, but it is too late for her. Her step sister comes back to revenge and her revenge is complete. However, the instrument to the revenge is also killed for all the time he spilled blood.

1. 5.      Damage:

·         Directed By : Moses Iwang

·         Year of production : 2011

·         Location: Nigeria

·         Main Characters:

1)                  Uche Jumbo     as Sarah

2)                  Kalu Ikeagwu  as Taiwo

·         Story: A husband and his wife are so in love with each other and at the same time hate each other so much. One minute they are in love, and the next, they are trying to kill each other. This attitude of theirs spills over to affect their kids negatively but this is not the worst case scenario. During one of their fights, they mistakenly kill their first child, who had just returned to tell them news of her passing WAEC. This puts an end to the marriage, but society is unaware of this, and the couple is about to be awarded couple of the year. They decide not to take the award as it will be a lie.

international public relations

here is my summary of a book chapter we were asked to summarise

chapter title: International Public relations: Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st century

This chapter of the book examines public relations under different topics and as it is practiced in different countries

The topics are

Extensions of symmetrical research

Many researchers have tried to study symmetry in public -relations around the world. Symmetry here means Mutual understanding

These research results below are extensions of the efforts of the IABC Excellence project. In an attempt to come about these results, the researchers have;

1)      Tested and retested existing models of research

2)      Merged different models of research to make for better results

Their result conclude that -

·         Public relations is better practiced when Public relations is made part of the management – China.

·         International public relations messages are better understood when they are applicable to large audience – India, Greece and Taiwan

·         public relations also involves ‘Personal influence relations” with government/and journalists often evading the masses –Developing countires

·         excellent public relations practice is reduced when practitioners are not involved in Strategic communication and planning –Slovenia

·         at the organizational level, a participatory culture is better than an authoritarian culture because participatory culture provides a better environment for symmetrical relationship building.

Contextualized/comparative research

This path of research seeks to compare public relations practices from around the world. This is based on the premise that cultural, social and political environments affect the practice of PR

·         In Hungary, PR is often misinterpreted to mean advertising. Employee relations and international communication is becoming more important than public and media relations.

·         Public relations together with new technologies are changing the face of public communications in former communist states – public attitudes can be assessed and the right communication is tailored to suit them.

·         In Romania public relations research discovered two opposing attitudes. On one hand, PR is still being viewed against the backdrop of Romania’s’ communist days, but  on the other hand, efforts of creating mutual understanding, are in existence.

·         In many other post-communist Countries also, skepticism is the attitude that citizens of such countries have towards PR and so the practice must be approached with care.

·         In Europe, the government policies make it in a way inevitable for the lobbying to be practiced, because it is needed to gain favorable influence.

·         Scholars encourage that PR practitioners be included in the top level management.

·         Cultural backgrounds affect PR practitioners - Austrian and Norwegian practitioners are less interested in prestige and are more concerned with avoiding uncertainties as opposed to their American counterparts

Pedagogy and ethics

This path of study examines the various bodies of knowledge that guide  practitioners in other parts of the world. Many parts of the world need more improvement in their teaching and knowledge base of PR.

·         In India , there is a short supply of experienced teachers

·         In Thailand, the teachers lack Thai content, and teaching is done based on knowledge gathered from other countries

·         In England Public relations is cloaked under business studies

·         On the ethical path, practitioners are encouraged to develop a universal set of ethics so that external publics will see the practice more seriously

Exploring presuppositions

This path is concerned with looking into the assumptions associated with international public relations. The findings are that

·         Cultural bias affects how far public relations is perceived as being able to better understand international publics

·         Therefore, practitioners must look beyond these biases to practice their proffession more effectively. These assumptions must be flexible in order to allow easy adjustment to whatever situation presents itself in a new country

·         There is a political angle to every PR activity that influences organizations decision making

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