However, a new generation of filmmakers, like C.J Obasi who directed “Hello Rain”, a Nigerian sci-fi film is looking to chart a departure from the conventional and move Nigerian filmmaking beyond ...

Some fun facts about Nigeria: It’s the seventh most populated country in the world, with more than 200 million people. The official language is English but more than 500 dialects are spoken within its ...

Set up by filmmaker Femi D. Ogunsanwo and finance execs Tunde Leye and Adedayo Amzat, the fund has already invested in heist-thriller 'The Lagos Job.' By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The banner’s $3 ...

The distinctive makeup of early-aughts Nigerian movies is coming back — and so is the daring attitude of the women who wore it. By Houreidja Tall In the early 2000s, the femme fatales of Nollywood ...

IT ALL started by accident in 1992, when Kenneth Nnebue, a Nigerian trader based in Onitsha, was trying to sell a large stock of blank videocassettes he had bought from Taiwan. He decided that they ...

Anyone with an academic interest in Nigerian film must be familiar with the difficulty in accessing specific titles for teaching or research purposes. Less academic interests are frustrated by the ...

Nollywood is an entertainment-producing powerhouse gaining a foothold in the United States. But for one Boston film student, the movies her mother watched will always be tied up with memories of home.

Nigerian culture has a long-standing tradition of honouring older individuals as a fundamental aspect of our societal identity. Igbo ịkwụ aka ọtọ (kneeling to greet) and Yoruba dọbalẹ (prostrating) ...

In 2016, a team of young, scrappy Nigerian filmmakers made Ojukokoro (Yoruba for “greed”), a twisty crime thriller. They were convinced their little film was going to change Nollywood for the better.

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In the huge Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood, producer and writer Emem Isong is a standout. She's one of the few powerful women who can get a movie made. She is trying to forge ties with ...