The cinema of Nigeria is a nascent film industry in Nigeria, growing up within the last two decades to become the second largest film industry on the planet, in terms of number of films produced per year. This is ahead of the United States and behind the Indian film industries.

According to Hala Gorani and Jeff Koinange formerly of CNN, Nigeria has a US$250 million movie industry, churning out some 200 videos for the home video market every month.

Nigerian cinema is Africa's largest movie industry in terms of the value of the movie industry and the number of movies produced per year. Although Nigerian films have been produced since the 1960s, the rise of affordable digital filming and editing technologies has stimulated the country's video film industry. The Nigerian video feature film industry is sometimes colloquially known as Nollywood, a term of uncertain origin, having been derived as a play on Hollywood in the same manner as Bollywood.

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The cinema of Nigeria is a nascent film industry in Nigeria, growing up within the last two decades to become the second largest film industry on the planet,

This is the biggest load of CLAP-TRAP I have ever heard!!!


May be home videos but not Cinema movies, its OK to churn out 200 crap films in a month (Thats a film every 3.5hrs)

well said @omar

That they are prolific in producing movies does not put them in the class of Hollywood nor Bollywood nor even the british and french movie industry.

@poster, you are referencing wikipedia. Wikipedia is user generated content so i can go there one morning and add that soloqy is a super hero that saves the world, and sure as heaven, you will get to read it one day.

In terms of quantity yes, quality No!

This is the biggest load of CLAP-TRAP I have ever heard!!!


May be home videos but not Cinema movies, its OK to churn out 200 crap films in a month (Thats a film every 3.5hrs)

Thank you o jare jo.

Nigerians,
Give Nollywood a break!!!!

we go make am one day, hahaha

Sevn:

Nigerians,
Give Nollywood a break!!!!

we go make am one day, hahaha

yeah we will, but not by believing lies concocted by wikipedia (of all sources). by the way, is it not the same wiki that said that Obafemi martins is Obafemi Awolowo's grandson? i really dont know where they got their "facts" from. and if you're clueless enough to believe them. . . clap for yourself
IMO if you want to grade movies, lets look at quality of the movie, critics review and fan base. sadly we fall short an all categories.

Source pls

Dumb ass actors and actresses, poor sound quality, poor direction and screenplay, dumb titles, I give up. If you believe this crap, you should get a MRI and CAT scan

If this is true, I wonder what the world is turning into then