You have to go to Alaba market in the chaotic metropolis of Lagos. It’s where the country’s film industry, Nollywood, was born over two decades ago—not that most of its stars would set foot there ...

Nollywood has come to be recognised as shorthand for Nigeria’s bustling and rapidly expanding mainstream film industry. In terms of quantity of output, it competes favourably with Hollywood and ...

Nigeria—with its booming growth, and its nearly 300 missing girls—has been all over the news lately. I’ve been here for the last 7 days, first reporting on the Africa meeting of the World Economic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT The current trend in Nollywood Studies is to focus on the way video films are being made and consumed around the world, a focus that ...

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.