For the first time, Essence Fest – which has been celebrating African American culture in the United States for more than two decades – is devoting a day to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry – the ...

Nollywood and its diaspora: an introduction / Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome -- Part 1. Mapping the terrain. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video ...

Nìyí Akinmolayan’s The Color of Fire is raising a bigger question for Nollywood than whether artificial intelligence belongs ...

But if it was a blockbuster that had been rented over and over before it got to your turn, then you’d also have to pray it doesn’t “crack” as you watch it. That was the familiar “home video” era. And ...

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 ...

Actress Patience Ozokwor reflects on her Nollywood journey, revealing her early earnings from ₦2,000 to ₦15,000, highlighting ...

First there was Hollywood. In the 1940s came Bollywood, the prolific Bombay film industry. But what about their lesser-known cousins Nollywood and Lollywood? “Nollywood” refers to the Nigerian film ...

Every year, Nollywood produces thousands of films that speak to the daily realities of Nigerians. From cinemas and streaming platforms to YouTube, the film industry guarantees yearly production, which ...

Nigerian movie director, Dimbo Atiya, has died barely 24 hours after the demise of Nollywood actress, Temitope Osoba. Naija News learnt that Atiya reportedly died on Thursday morning.

Nollywood mourned the loss of filmmaker Dimbo Atiya, known for Halita and Sons of the Caliphate, as tributes flood in ...

By Suzan SundayThe Nigerian film industry has recorded the loss of several talented actors in 2026, leaving fans, colleagues and the wider entertainment community mourning. From veteran Yoruba ...