Nollywords: Language and the Ghost of Our Colonial Past

Nollywood gives Nigerian creatives room to take a language that we may not have chosen and use it to tell our stories in the way that we choose. Earlier this year, Nigeria submitted Genevieve Nnaji’s Lionheart (2018) as its first-ever entry into the Academy Awards’ ‘Best International Feature Film’ category. The critical success of the film gave Nigerians an opportunity to celebrate the rise of Nigeria’s female directors, Nollywood’s first-ever Netflix Original, and ultimately,

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