Abstract
Nollywood, the second largest movie industry in the world after America’s Hollywood, is Nigeria’s movie industry. This ongoing study investigates how sexual messages and scenes are communicated to viewers and if there is correlation between the pattern of Nollywood movies exposure and sexual behaviour of in-school adolescents in the southwestern part of Nigeria. Data will be collected from the participants through questionnaire while content of popular Nollywood movies among the participants will be content analyzed. It is expected that this study will provide information about the frequency of sexual scenes and how risky sexual behaviours are portrayed in Nollywood movies. Secondly, it is expected that this study will show the types of relationships that exist between movie exposure behaviour and sexual behaviour in the study population. Nollywood, la deuxième plus grosse industrie du cinéma au monde après Hollywood, est l'industrie du cinéma nigérien. Cet étude en cours examine comment les messages et les scènes à caractères sexuels sont communiquées aux téléspectateurs et s'il existe une corrélation entre le modèle d'exposition aux films Nollywoodiens et les comportements sexuels des adolescents scolarisés dans le sud-ouest du Nigéria. Les données seront collectés auprès des participants par le biais d'un questionnaire et le contenu des films Nollywoodiens populaires auprès des participants sera anlysé. Cette étude devrait fournir des information sur la fréquence des scènes sexuelles et sur la manière dont les comportements sexuels à risque sont décrits dans les films de Nollywood. Il est aussi attendu que cette étude montre les types de relations qui existent entre le comportement d'exposition au cinéma et le comportement sexuel dans la population étudiée.
Highlights
Nigeria’s population constitute about 25% of young people aged between 10 and 20 years of age (National Bureau of Statistics, 2018)
With studies showing that average Nigerian youth debuts sex at the ages of 15 (Envuladu et al, 2017), their contribution of about 40% of new cases of HIV globally mainly because of unsafe sex(Adedokun et al, 2016), coupled with the proportion of this age group in the country’s population, understanding the sexual behaviour of this population is important to the nation’s health outlook
Studies have shown that most young people at this age lack the requisite awareness about safe sexual habits (Envuladu et al, 2017), this has pitted the age of sexual debut as a strong factor that determines the risk of acquiring sexual transmitted diseases (Envuladu et al, 2017), unwanted pregnancy (Envuladu et al, 2017) and early childbearing/marriage which negatively affects the development of young women and increases their chances of dropping out of school (Odimegwu & Somefun, 2017)
Summary
Nigeria’s population constitute about 25% of young people aged between 10 and 20 years of age (National Bureau of Statistics, 2018). Studies have found association between the role of movies and social media as sources of sexual information of adolescents (O’Hara et al, 2012, Collins et al, 2011)). As Nigerian youths spend ample time with television, cinemas, and the Internet to watch Nollywood movies, the information they internalise from the movies could influence their sexual behaviour. This ongoing study is interested in investigating the relationship between Nollywood movies and sexual behaviour of adolescents in Nigeria. Meeting the aims of the study requires the use of the qualitative research design through the content analysis of Yoruba and English Nollywood movie to explicate how sexual and HIV information is portrayed on the Nollywood movies; this will address the study objective one. The second section discusses the content analysis with details on the sampling of movies, data collection method and content analysis method
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