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Wednesday, 04 November, 2009
Nollywood
(with comments)
Nigeria: Christian Movie Capital of the World.
Nigerian Christians are actively contributing to the booming Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood.
Nollywood recently surpassed Hollywood in film production, according to a UNESCO survey released in May. The Lagos-based industry has existed for less than 20 years, yet produced 872 feature-length films in 2006, nearly twice Hollywood's 485 productions. (Both trailed India, which produced more than 1,000 films.)
Most Nigerian films, almost all of which are low-budget affairs shot on location and released on DVD, are spiritual in nature. About 20 percent are Christian, according to Obidike Okafor, an arts and culture reporter at Nigerian newspaper Next. Others champion Islam, animism and witchcraft, or simple morality.
The Christian-themed movies often aim at encouragement and evangelism more than sheer entertainment. Groups or churches often screen the films and follow them with discussions or an altar call.
The movies all start with a simple voice-over, like this:
I sincerely seek your co-operation and trust to enable my colleagues and I carry out an urgent business opportunity in my department. I work with the Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, currently I am the senior manager of bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of my bank. I have an urgent and confidential business proposal for you.
Bonus link: Nigerian Movies.
- By . Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @09:30am:Preaching to the choir has always been an effective tactic.
- By Shel-tone. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @09:55am:J-Walk: Beware of the danger of a single story:
http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/37424-ted-talks-chimamanda-adichie-danger-single-story.html - By kashmarek. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @10:22am:The closing paragraph above seems to indicate this is a new slant on the old Nigerian scam theme.
- By Gee.... Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @11:23am:Nollywood recently surpassed Hollywood in film production If you focus on quantity instead of quality, doesn't Pasadena have them all beat?
(Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more!) - By wally the duck. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @11:52am:Or like this:
Attn,
I am Hammed Abbas a citizen eastern state of Togo in west Africa, I am
47years of age with three children, now living in Cotonou Republic of
Benin West Africa, I worked with one of the biggest{ Bureau de
exchange} name Alkali group of companies owned by a Mr. Kamal Din who is residing in Riyadh state in Saudi Arabia before is death earlier this year 2009.
As the stock keeper of company I was on duty when there is a fire problem in my office. and a I rush down to second floor where their is a trunk of box of money that contains the sum of ($62.3mUSD) that my office want to transfer to our correspondent office in Belgium to escape the box so that it would not burnt together with the office and nobody saw me and still yet the fire continue till all the building burnt to collapse, so nobody aware that this money is in my possession they all believe that the money have burnt together with the building so no any trace of this money from my country in Togo. - By . Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @12:00pm:Hey, I've never heard about that burnt trunk of box of money - that must be legit. If nobody knows it exists, that sounds like a good deal to me. Please to contact for assistance to my account information.
- By Christopher. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @04:19pm:OMG!!!
Uncle Kamal is DEAD? - By . Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @05:07pm:Why did Upper Volta change its name to Burkina Faso, but keep the name Ouagadougou for the capital?
- By Mean Jean. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @05:47pm:OMG!!
Christopher. I almost swallowed my tongue. - By Net_Junkie. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @02:25am:
Preaching to the choir has always been an effective tactic.
That's what this blog is all about. - By Mesjogge. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @03:33am:Chazunga because it is the most African name around. I was there last year and I texted all my friends and relatives. I am not at home at the moment I am in OUAGADOUGOU (and after that in Bobo Dioulasso)