Journal articleUnder review
The Fidelity of Impure Screen Media: Literary Adaptation in New Nollywood
Black Camera · Year to be confirmed
Babatunde Opeyemi Salami
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Babatunde Opeyemi Salami is a PhD candidate in the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a minor in Visual Cultures and Performance Studies in the Department of Art History. Through ethnography, archival research, close reading and comparative media analysis, his research examines how African ancestral masquerades move between ritual performance, film, and other media. He teaches African film, African cultural expressions, African literature, and the Yoruba language.
Dissertation research
Ancestral masquerades across media.
The remediation of African ancestral masquerades across ritual performance, film and other media.
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Critical media practice
Media Practice from Yoruba Advanced Class
Student Yoruba film project · Advanced Intermediate Yoruba · Spring 2026
Critical media practice
Media Practice from Yoruba Advanced Class
This is a film project by my Yoruba Advanced Class students, Diamond and Ajara, for our Spring 2026 semester
Fieldwork Gallery
View collection →The Itinerant Lives of Ancestral Masquerades in Yoruba Societies
Ancestral screen at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos.
Igunnuko masquerade shrine at Epetedo, Lagos.
