A look at the future of NollywoodBy Yinka Ogundaisi
Published: September 30, 2007
Print In Nigeria today, a most visible group of patrons of home-video sales are the video-clubs, and this is because new releases are their stock-in-trade. Very few, particularly the organized ones have a way of compensating the producers or the distributors on their rental income...
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Promoting Indigenous Culture Through Television and Film: The South African Example For NigeriaBy Jibril Sado
Published: July 22, 2007
Print Television is arguably the most powerful tool of mass communication invented by man. Together with film, this medium is perhaps the most potent weapon of cultural colonialism in
Africa as they help to assert Western influence on African societies to the detriment of indigenous cultural expressions.
Nigeria, the ancestral home of one in every three Africans, is one of the biggest victims of this trend...
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Money making opportunities in Nigerian home video industryBy Tunji Afuwape
Published: June 11, 2007
Print Most filmmaking accessories we use are imported. Hence, many have no option but to send their cameras back to Europe and America at the slight hint of technical "headache." This is a unique business opportunity...
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Nollywood...to God be the gloryBy Olupohunda Bayo
Published: May 26, 2007
Print "To me and I believe to every watcher of the home video industry, the whole sub-sector is laughable and what is being forced down on hapless Nigerians is a huge joke. The idea of this Nollywood thing can now be compared to the emergence of ‘pure water’ business which started as a novel business idea in providing accessible water for all but which soon degenerated into an all comers affair..." Read More...
Coming In From The Cold – Time For A New Nollywood!By Iwedi Ojinmah - TheTimesOfNigeria.com
Published: February 14, 2007
Print It is 2007 and Nigeria sits in the cross hairs of a sniper. Seemingly oblivious to that fact, she remains locked in the assassin’s scope as they speculate, ponder and wait for the right moment, finger on the trigger... Read More...
Nollywood...to God be the gloryBy Olupohunda Bayo
Published: January 4, 2007
Print This contraption called Nollywood! Where did this name spring from? Having toyed with several titles for this piece, I have decided to stick with the above, since it captured the whole essence of every production that has come out of Nollywood.
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