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
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
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
A film review of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, staring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. By Michael Renouf
Fiction is a powerful tool that frees up the imagination and leads to the some of the greatest achievements of mankind.
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. …
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 …