Professor Onookome Okome is a distinguished academic and one of the pioneering scholars of Nollywood films and popular culture studies in Nigeria. He currently teaches in the Department of Theatre English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His significant contributions to the field include co-authoring “Cinema and Social Change in Nigeria” with Jonathan Haynes and organizing the first major conference on Nollywood films. Over the past decade, his research has focused extensively on African popular culture, especially on the “art of the everyday” on the continent. His scholarly works include the influential book “Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday” (published by Routledge) and his editorship of a special issue of Research in African Literatures titled “Measuring Time: Karin Barber and the Study of Everyday Africa.” His academic interests extend to various aspects of Nigerian popular culture, including studies of Onitsha Market Pamphlets. He is currently working on a comprehensive book-length study titled “Nollywood: Text, Context, Controversy.” Professor Okome’s dedication to Nigerian cinema studies and his ongoing work continues to shape academic discourse around African popular culture and Nollywood films, as evidenced by the recent conference held in his honor at the University of Abuja in June 2024. He spoke with Kolawole Olaiya of Nollywood in Review at the venue of the conference in Abuja.