Watching Naija
Nollywood makes more films than Hollywood and Bollywood. What it lacks is strong marketing and promotion.
Nollywood makes more films than Hollywood and Bollywood. What it lacks is strong marketing and promotion.
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.
In the Nigerian film 'La Femme Anjola,' which delights with brilliant performances, no one is exactly who they seem.
Director Taiwo Egunjobi disavows Nollywood’s penchant for crass comedies and maudlin dramas.
Nigeria’s 2021 submission to the Oscars probes the psychology and propaganda of militant jihadism through the eyes of two sisters.
How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the protests of #EndSARS?
Nigerian cinema is obsessed with films about the wealthy. Can class politics shine through?
Director Abba T. Makama's 'The Lost Okoroshi,' attempts to unpacks identity through masquerades in an increasingly ethnocentric Nigeria.
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.
Africa is apparently hot in Hollywood, but can Hollywood be trusted with African stories?
Director Dare Olaitan’s Knock Out Blessing (2018), is nothing less than a meditation on rape culture.
Dare Olaitan’s film Ojukokoro gets some room to breathe in New York, after being stifled at the box office in Lagos.
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.
Nigerian cinema is finally being embraced outside Nollywood for its diversity and capacity to adapt to dramatic technological and infrastructural shifts.
African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.
The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.
An Interview with Nigerian Filmmaker Tunde Kelani.
Kenneth Gyang's "Confusion Na Wa" and the growing desire for variety and novelty in Nigerian cinema.
Nollywood, the world’s second largest film industry, produces over 2000 films annually, and now, seven of its best will be screened at France’s first ever NollywoodWeek Paris.