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Why Nollywood cinema needs to make cool shit to capture the world’s attention.

The internet has upended a major revenue outlet for Nollywood celebrities.

A Nigerian TV professional interrogates online clips of the popular UK show

Award-winning Rwandan director Mutiganda Wa Nkunda urges African cinema financiers to reconsider chasing trends.

At a recent party in Lagos, Nollywood’s pioneering generation gathered to celebrate the birthday and published memoirs of one of their own.

Landline, the latest time-loop tale from Nollywood, is another exercise in the tradition’s storytelling problem.

The 2025 AMVCA nominations had nominees to cheer for, some to wonder about, and one to leave you torn between cheer and despair.

Rwandan director writes about his country’s growing film industry and what it needs to get even better.

First and foremost: FESPACO cannot remain an exclusively French-speaking festival. It simply cannot be that in 2025 and in the future.

Ahead of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Oris Aigbokhaevbolo offers a few lessons for African cinema based on observations from the last edition.