ABSTRACT
Nollywood, today’s mainstream Nigerian film industry, was launched in the early 1990s with the film Living in Bondage (Chris Obi Rapu, 1992), which is widely regarded as its foundational production. As a mostly commercial and popular cinema model, Nollywood releases about 2,500 films every year. Nollywood was birthed at the confluence of the need to tell local stories and the business acumen of the storytellers. For film studies, Nollywood studies continues to grow within the larger field of African film and media studies, with growing scholarly publications and conferences. Critical interventions on Nollywood enrich conversations and reflections on African cinema.
