AFRICAN MOVIES TEACHES MORALS THROUGH STORYTELLING

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The production of movies in various parts of the world are used to represent a thing or two. These days we have horrors, romance, sci-fi, anime, action, thriller, comedy, tragedy, fantasy and mystery all are unique in their own ways and have what to offer to their audience. I love movies that helps me learn and shape my way of life somehow because most times and more specifically Nigerian movies tells the stories of real life events. Every movie is a depiction of betrayal from friends, families, colleagues or loved ones, it could tell a story of how life was before colonisation and how we worshipped deities and depending on natural resources to survive and so on.

One way by which storytelling has influenced me as an audience was when I identified with one of the characters in a movie, deep African intellectual movies have a way of making you find yourself in the protagonist or the antagonist if the story is relatable to your situation. For instance, there was a movie that came out recently called "treasure in the sky" when an high school boy was very friendly, love and caring to his fellow classmates who were rounding up school. He did all his best to make things better for everyone and helped them to settle their differences with friends and families, only to find out at the end that he was battling with cancer and had a few days to live. For me, I watched the movie and was touched but with no indepth emotional feelings because I felt it was just a movie. But later that evening, it began to thread on Twitter that people cried and sobbed for the movie because they had similar experience when they were young and in school. This is one way storytelling can get into your emotions through the story been told.

In movies, you get to know that unimaginable things are really happening, in recent Nigerian family movies, a moral lesson I have come to learn is to keep your marriage a secret from everyone, even your family do not need to know the daily activities that goes on in your married life. There are evil people around you, who would smile at your face but wish for your downfall behind your back. They are jealous and want what you have for themselves without caring if you were once friends or not.

There was a movie I watched where a woman in a stable relationship was always gisting about how her husband takes good care of her, gives her huge amounts of money, satisfies her in babe and does lovely stuffs for her. Unknown to her, the friend was jealous and tried every possible means to destroy the good relationship. This is definitely one lesson that married people should know both male and female.

So, African movies are very versatile in telling stories that can shape the life of its audience and make them learn from the mistakes of the characters.

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