Nollywood

Why Yoruba Chiefs warned against filming “Sango”

The night air in Oyo still carries a weight that words cannot quite capture. Travelers who have walked the silent…

The Lagos Bullets that couldn’t silence 2Baba

They say Lagos never truly sleeps. Its nights are laced with the hum of danfo buses rushing down half-lit highways,…

What Chinua Achebe said and didn’t say about Nollywood’s Things Fall Apart

In the quiet corners of literary history, some voices linger longer than the pages they wrote. Chinua Achebe’s voice is…

Why every skitmaker now calls themselves an ‘actor’

If you’re on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, you’ve probably noticed that many Nigerian skit-makers, from Broda Shaggi to Taaooma to…

The rise of tech in Nollywood: How sci-fi stories are finding their place

For most of its life, Nollywood’s image was simple to summarize. It was filled with rapid-fire production, intimate melodrama, comic…

When Bishop Oyedepo declared war on Witches at Ota and what followed

The morning had begun like any other at Faith Tabernacle. The sprawling grounds of Canaanland in Ota were alive with…

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