• Babatunde Opeyemi Salami

Masquerade custodians in Lagos keep saying no to Nollywood. Nollywood keeps returning to masquerades anyway.

• Folakemi Ogungbe
• Steven W. Thomas
• Folashade Roberts

Some of Nigeria’s biggest filmmakers now look to YouTube for opportunity instead of cinemas and streamers. But is what looks like a new era really a return to an old one?

• Jummai Bulama-Ashebu

Kenneth Nnebue made 27 Yoruba-language films before Living in Bondage. Why does Nigeria still only remember the one he made in Igbo?

• Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez

Nollywood makes more films than Hollywood and Bollywood. What it lacks is strong marketing and promotion.

• Noah Tsika

King of Boys: The Return of the King, a seven-part limited series of Netflix, is a sustained — if ultimately pessimistic — critique of Nigerian corruption.

• Dika Ofoma

In the Nigerian film 'La Femme Anjola,' which delights with brilliant performances, no one is exactly who they seem.

• William Shoki

On the next AIAC Talk, we’re talking about African film and TV in the age of streaming. Stream it live Tuesday on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• Taiwo Egunjobi

Director Taiwo Egunjobi disavows Nollywood’s penchant for crass comedies and maudlin dramas.

• Vishnu Bachani

Nigeria’s 2021 submission to the Oscars probes the psychology and propaganda of militant jihadism through the eyes of two sisters.

• Wilfred Okiche

How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the protests of #EndSARS?

• Eke Ndukwe Kalu

Nigerian cinema is obsessed with films about the wealthy. Can class politics shine through?

• Dika Ofoma

Director Abba T. Makama's 'The Lost Okoroshi,' attempts to unpacks identity through masquerades in an increasingly ethnocentric Nigeria.

• Wilfred Okiche

The Nigerian drama 'Òlòtūré,' about sex work and sex trafficking in the country’s commercial capital, which premiered on Netflix, is mostly uncomfortable. And not in a good way.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Africa is apparently hot in Hollywood, but can Hollywood be trusted with African stories?

• Noah Tsika

Director Dare Olaitan’s Knock Out Blessing (2018), is nothing less than a meditation on rape culture.

• Noah Tsika

Dare Olaitan’s film Ojukokoro gets some room to breathe in New York, after being stifled at the box office in Lagos.

• Noah Tsika

The book 'Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire' takes a journalistic approach to that industry without falling back on the bombast of most popular accounts.

• Noah Tsika

Nigerian cinema is finally being embraced outside Nollywood for its diversity and capacity to adapt to dramatic technological and infrastructural shifts.

• Ainehi Edoro

African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.

• Katarina Hedrén

The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.