Nollywood, Nigeria’s vibrant film industry, is setting its sights on achieving global recognition akin to the meteoric rise of Afrobeats. As the third-largest film industry in the world by number of ...

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 ...

This story is featured in the March/April 2025 issue of ESSENCE. “As much as we brought it to attention, it is the lens with which we viewed it that really mattered,” states Tochi, the elder sibling. ...

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Director Kunle Afolayan and actress Genevieve Nnaji discuss the international rise of Nollywood at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Tara Ziemba/Getty Images The Nigerian film industry, ...