Hollywood and Bollywood may be the two biggest "-woods," but in northern Nigeria there is a scrappy, thriving filmmaking industry, nicknamed Kannywood. The name comes from Kano, ...

One of Nigeria’s foremost family entertainment TV channels, WapTV, has concluded a major acquisition deal for the broadcast rights to hundreds of top-quality English, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba films ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left-right: Actor Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù stars in "My Father's Shadow," directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and co-produced by Fatherland ...

On the strength of her years at Netflix shaping international film strategy, the film executive, Funa Maduka, keeps her focus on stronger scripts as a way to elevate underrepresented voices in global ...

Long overshadowed by south Nigeria's Nollywood, filmmakers in the north of Africa's cinema powerhouse are pushing the boundaries of censorship in search of international recognition. The Kannywood ...

The country's film festival circuit has become an essential calendar for filmmakers, industry professionals, and cinema lovers across the continent and beyond. The final quarter of 2025 promises a ...

Is Nollywood having its Cannes coming-out party? Ranking among the world’s most prolific film industries for years, Nigeria’s scrappy, homegrown biz is breaking out at this year’s festival, with the ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - "Oya!" shouts the director in Nigerian Pidgin English. Actors take their marks. Lighting blinks on. The film crew snaps into action after the order to hurry up. It's another day in ...

MBO Capital Management Limited (MCM), an indigenous investment advisory firm, has disclosed an investment of over N9bn in the ...

The Nigeria Film Crew Community (NFCC) has taken a powerful stand against bullying and abuse within Nollywood’s production ecosystem, issuing a bold statement that has sparked conversations about ...

Nigerians view the creative arts as vibrant expressions of their culture. Wole Soyinka, awarded the Nobel Prize for his body ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Not a day goes by ...