Dr. Usaku Robinson Wammanda
Postdoctoral researcher,
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Dr. Usaku Robinson Wammanda is a postdoctoral researcher the Department for Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. He is a filmmaker, film lecturer, and consultant. Skilled with extensive experience in documentary, music video, web series, and 360-degree/virtual reality (VR) content creation. As a researcher, his major research interests are VR filmmaking, documentary, digital filmmaking technologies, and digital platforms.
Usaku Robinson Wammanda primarily contributes to the work in Working Area A: Forms, Formats and Contents, in Working Area C: Archives and Cultural Heritage and in Project 1.5 on The Other Nollywood: Documentary Filmmaking Using Digital Technologies to Re-enact African History.
My CEDITRAA story
“My fascination with digital transformation is deploying, exploiting, and investigating how digital technologies propose methodologies that acknowledge the limitations of current methods and standard practices in the Nigerian film Industry.
This fascination is how I discovered CEDITRAA. For me, CEDITRAA is a unique opportunity to work with a team of scholars from different backgrounds who bring a wealth of experience and knowledge. Through CEDITRAA, I completed my practice-led PhD research, ‘The Other Nollywood: Deploying & Exploiting Virtual Reality Technology in History-Themed Documentary Films’.
The team involved in this interdisciplinary research project is not just an addition to my network; it also provides ongoing practical solutions to interconnected issues related to the export of film, music, and cultural productions in Nigeria. I want to be a part of that”.
