Charles Okpaleke: Living the dream
Charles Okpaleke’s journey, from struggling student to top film producer, and the operator of Nigeria’s first drive-in cinema, reads like the script of a Nollywood epic. Profile by Gail Collins
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AfroLandTV: promoting pan-African film and TV content across the globe
Adaora Oramah looks at how a new pan-African streaming platform aims to disrupt the political economy of the film industry in Africa and beyond
An authentic and inspiring African story
A film review of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, staring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. By Michael Renouf
The power of imagination
Fiction is a powerful tool that frees up the imagination and leads to the some of the greatest achievements of mankind.
The power of self-belief
Although the epic film, Black Panther, watched by millions of people globally is fiction, we must not underestimate the power of fiction to shape reality. …
Nollywood: No longer living in bondage
From very small beginnings in the early 1990s, the Nigerian film industry, known as Nollywood, has expanded beyond all recognition and is now the second …