27Oct/11Off
Next Stop: Nollywood
UNESCO has deemed the modern Nigerian film industry, popularly known as Nollywood, the second most prolific in the world. Its production volume far eclipses that of Hollywood and almost matches that of India’s Bollywood. In 2010, the Nigerian National Film and Video Censors Board, the federal regulator of the industry, reviewed an eye-wearying 1,612 domestic releases. This official number doesn’t include scores of others that bypassed the board.
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