Informed, provocative, and hopeful — Adebajo’s work resists reduction, embracing Africa’s plurality and persistent spirit
The photographer’s ambitious new exhibition What the Light Falls On is a free-ranging meditation on life
Local content is beginning to outcompete international films in Africa as rapid smartphone penetration and an affordable and expanding internet bring African creatives closer to people
‘Inxeba/The Wound’ is but one of the films of the growing body of literary and visual texts which have focused on queer lived experiences in Africa.
Kemi Adetiba’s Netflix miniseries is certainly stylish — but it’s missing the panache of the original
Nollywood’s production values have undergone tremendous change over the past decade, but is the effect sustainable?
How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the #EndSARS protests?
As the coronavirus restrictions on mass gatherings persist, Nigeria is having to tone down the grand events it cherishes
Nollywood directors are having to adapt quickly to Covid-19 restrictions that make filming tricky
Get into your lockdown long-weekend mood with at home entertainment ranging from Netflix, music concerts, cook-alongs to yoga sessions
The continent’s largest film industry has been getting mental health all wrong with dangerous consequences. Now, that’s changing.
Big investors seem to be mainly interested in Nollywood’s already established popularity with African audiences
Over the centuries, Nigeria’s colonisers brought their religions with them. But not everyone has forgotten the old gods
"Nollywood film The Wedding Party has shown Nigerian cinema at the top of its game"
A young entrepreneur is tapping the high demand for Nigerian movies.
There is a growing appetite for well-made Nigerian films, but securing financing from a bank is near impossible.
In Nigeria, Last Flight to Abuja has become the first home-grown production to outsell Hollywood films this year.
<b>Matthew Krouse</b> spoke to Fanney Tsimang, whose locally produced short gay feature film is based on a Nollywood concept.
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/ 1 February 2012
The director is challenging Nigeria’s film industry to raise its game by hiring American stars and taking on topical, political themes.
With the help of an entrepreneurial expat in London and YouTube’s partner programme, cheaply made movies from Nigeria have successfully gone global.
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/ 11 November 2009
If you have been living under a rock for the past decade or so, you would not know about Nollywood. The industry churns out 40 or 50 films a week.
Federica Angelucci, curator of photography at the Michael Stevenson Gallery, introduces Pieter Hugo’s images of the Nigerian film industry.