Viewpoint: What Is the Place of Nollywood in the World?
On the train from Paris to Lille where I was headed to attend the 2025 Series Mania festival, the biggest television series festival in Europe, I browsed through the available free in-train movies. There were Italian, French, American and Indian movies, but—not exactly to my surprise—no Nigerian films. Earlier, on my flight from Doha to Paris, I had searched for a few Nollywood films and found only Nigerian filmmaker Biodun Stephen’s Sista and another title I can’t remember now. But it took considerably more effort to find them than to find Hollywood or Bollywood movies, which had dedicated categories. Nollywood, the second-largest movie industry in the world (in terms of volume) after Bollywood, was tucked under ‘World Movies’, and even then, I had to click ‘African’ to get to Nigerian films. I wondered, why is Nollywood not readily available in places where it should exist?
Photo courtesy of Carmen McCain.
Source: The Republic (link opens in a new window)
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