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How did Nigeria create the second largest movie industry in the world?

Nollywood began in Nigeria in the 1990s and has grown into one of the most recognized cultural centers of the world, producing more movies every year than Hollywood and almost as many as Bollywood. Emily Witt travels to Nigeria to offer a vivid, rollicking tour of the industry today, from the back alleys of the marketplaces of Lagos to the glamour of a red-carpet premiere, from startups trying to digitalize what has been largely an economy based on piracy to the shooting of a historic epic in the northern city of Jos.

Amid electricity cuts, fuel scarcity, and countless other obstacles, Nigerians are pursuing the very real possibility that Nollywood dramas could become a global brand, as recognizable as the Bollywood musical, the Hong Kong kung fu flick, or the Hollywood blockbuster.

"Emily Witt blends monograph with vivid reportage in her latest offering: a short but sweet study of Nigerian cinema." -Financial Times

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  • Title Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire
  • Author Emily Witt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 124
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia Global Reports
  • Publication date 2017-10-17
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • ISBN 9780997126488 / 0997126485
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.4 in (18.80 x 12.45 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Plots, themes, etc, Motion pictures - Nigeria - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016962878
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/2017, Page 0

About the author

Emily Witt is a writer in New York City. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, n+1, The London Review of Books, and many other places. She has degrees from Brown University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Cambridge University, and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique. Her first book, Future Sex, was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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