Abstract
ABSTRACT The article analyses and reflects on the intergenerational relationship between Yorùbá performance traditions, Túndé Kèlání’s films and contemporary youth theatrical practices in Nigeria. I focus on the engagement of youth in the production of some of Kèlání’s well-known video films and explore how these works participate in the generation of a new public in the new social context. Based on an examination of Túndé Kèlání’s collaboration with Crown Troupe of Africa, a Lagos-based youth street theatre troupe, the article suggests that, rather than a ‘degeneration’ of popular performance culture, contemporary video culture in Nigeria has continuously recycled the prevalent political morality derived from earlier performance genres, and constitutes a crucial site of youth mobilisation and activism in contemporary Nigeria.
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