Nollywood, Nigeria’s prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century. At first Nollywood films were screened in ...

In 1992, after years of watching only imported American, Indian or Chinese films, Nigeria’s local film industry had its first real hit. “Living in Bondage,” a straight-to-video dramatic thriller, ...

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 ...

The casting for Dr. Bello joins together powerhouse stars Isaiah Washington, Vivica A. Fox and Jimmy Jean-Louis with Nigerian A-listers Genevieve Nnaji and Stephanie Okereke. It’s not the first time ...

First there was Hollywood, then came Bollywood and today we have Nollywood: the second largest film industry in the world. Indeed, it was in 2009 that Nigeria’s pulsating film industry, Nollywood, ...

For the first time, Essence Fest – which has been celebrating African American culture in the United States for more than two decades – is devoting a day to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry – the ...

It has taken nearly 80 years, but a Nigerian movie will finally be screened in a hallowed official slot at the Cannes film festival Sunday. After decades of being written off for its cheap and ...