Topic
Nollywood
Nollywood represents African beliefs through Nigerian cinema, with critical analysis of how ritual, ancestral tradition, and spiritual beliefs are portrayed.
Folklore
African Folklore in Contemporary Storytelling: Nigerian Novels and Film
Ben Okri opens The Famished Road with a river that becomes a road, and a road that stays hungry because it was once a river.
Mythology
Netflix Releases and African Mythology: What One Number Misses
A multiplex in Lekki on a Friday night seats a few hundred people. Nigeria — a country of more than 200 million — has fewer than 200 cinema screens in total.
Yoruba
Netflix Releases, Nollywood, and Africa's 1,700 Screens
The film opens on a compound at dawn. A woman sets a calabash down at the foot of a tree, straightens, and says nothing.