What Nigeria Must Do To Have A Film Industry - Ola BalogunBy Ola Balogun
Published: August 21, 2005
Print Dear Ms. Nwabuikwu, It is a pity that folks like you insist on trivializing a very serious debate about how best to create a film industry in Nigeria by mischievously depicting the whole issue as a conflict between two different generations of film makers... Read More...
Does Nigeria Indeed Have a Film Industry?By Ola Balogun
Published: June 13, 2005
Print I do not need to produce any set of statistics to show that there are no objective grounds for accepting the claims that over 40,000 copies of each Nigerian home video are sold, and that they each make profits ranging from N5million to N18million naira. How does anyone establish how many copies of these home videos are sold, beyond the self-serving claims of the marketers? Who certifies the numbers that are placed on sale? Do the marketers pay tax on their sales, so that the volume of sales can be computed on the basis of tax returns?
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The Economics of Nigerian film, Art and BusinessBy Tayo Aderinokun
Published: April 9, 2005
Print According to the Filmmakers Cooperative of Nigeria, every film in Nigeria has a potential audience of 15 million people within the country and about 5 million outside. These statistics may be somewhat conservative considering that half of West Africa’s 250 million people are Nigerians and according to the World Bank, slightly over 7 million Nigerians are scattered around the world, most of them in the developed economies...
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Behind Nollywood’s Dazzling MaskPublished: April 9, 2005
It is this quest for creative independence and the very strong spirit of entrepreneurship that are the biggest and strongest legacies of the pioneer celluloid filmmakers to the present generation of home video directors and producers...
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Does Dr. Balogun Know? - A Response to Ola BalogunBy Charles Novia
Published: March 20, 2005
Print DR. OLA Balogun has largely been touted as a pioneer and respected filmmaker. His movies have been copiously reviewed in many international journals. In fact, he is a celebrated director - the last, I dare say, of a fading generation; one which Professor Wole Soyinka would call 'a wasted generation'.
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Don't Envy The South Africans: A rejoinder by Ola Balogun Print "I am hardly ever able to sit through even five minutes of what currently passes for the ouput of the Nigerian home video industry..."
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