February 17, 2025
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Nollywood Industry influencing African Culture

Since its emergence at the turn of the twenty-first century, the Nigerian movie industry “Nollywood” has had a profound influence on African culture. The Nigerian accents, style of dress, and behaviours of the people, all of which are Nigerian cultural practices are now being transmitted as images around the globe.   In Nigeria, the role […]
Opinion

How to end the Nollywood film

Nollywood is enjoying a resurgence, optimists like to preach. Nollywood 2.0, or 3.0 or 4.0, depending on what generation it is making the claims. New Nollywood is the term most proponents seem to agree upon and just like the badly worn cliché that it is, this term has come to stay. New Nollywood means different […]
Hollywood

Mexicans Became Hollywood’s Best Directors

The success of the movie, Bird­man, means Mexicans have won best director for two years running. In 2014, Alfonso Cuaron won for Grav­ity, his groundbreaking sci-film film that featured Sandra Bullock floating around a junkyard of orbiting satel­lites and made a whopping $716 mil­lion at the box office. Birdman also won for best original screenplay […]