Gender Sensibility and Cinematography in the Sokoto Province, 1922-1976

Abstract

Cinema has remained a female influencer; though somehow view as a male oriented domain. Hence, women participation is somewhat not at the mainstream. This paper therefore interrogates women and cinematography in Sokoto metropolis with the establishment of Nigeria Television (NTV) station in 1976. The paper uses primary and secondary sources of data to elicit its data. Primary data include archival documents, oral information from participants and observers, and the secondary data include textbooks and journals articles used to interpret and analyze qualitatively. The paper reveals that women constituted more than sixty percent of the pull factors to the cinema centres which encouraged the patronage received by the commercial Cinema houses; while they also influenced the establishment of media houses and stations by the government which curb moral decadence among the female folks. It discovers that cinema media perceived as male dominated profession is a wrong perception rather the female gender’s contribution constitutes part of the main stream of cinematography in Sokoto. Finally, the paper discusses the contributions of female gender to the success of some sensitization programs of the Nigerian Television (NTV) Sokoto.