The film insists that young Africans are not just passive recipients of imported technologies. They’re also active creators.
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Evangelical filmmakers turned prayers into special effects and spiritual battles into dramatic storylines and created a new genre.
The films discussed by the women I interviewed served as commentaries on the social costs of poverty on the family. This is a popular Nollywood theme.
Netflix’s interest in Africa is more about business than telling nuanced stories about the continent.
There’s a big difference between how Hollywood audiences view Black Panther and how African audiences do.
High action and outspoken politics meet digital-first thinking and a global hit is made.
Despite harsh laws, a growing number of African countries are representing queer life in their cinema.
Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, recently signed the copyright law. Its provisions will be beneficial only if it is well implemented.
BringBackOurGirls led to a global outcry, but it simplified a complex history that is best understood through survivor accounts.
Elesin Oba, The King’s Horseman, is a film of a play by author and activist Wole Soyinka. It premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.
From Blood Sisters to Half of a Yellow Sun, he was loved for his TV series and films as well as his novel Burma Boy.
Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for the Nigerian tweeters in the study.
Big investors seem to be mainly interested in Nollywood’s already established popularity with African audiences.
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