WheresWallace
Superstar
As a Nigerian whose favorite rapper is 2Pac I'm left speechless
Wait...what?If this is true, why do you c00n so hard on here?
WheresWallace
Superstar
Its a shame they keep smearing Nigeria's name with the whole "419 e-mail scam" thing. They brought it up in this article and it had absolutely nothing to do with Nollywood or the Harlem lady that collects them.circa 2009
African Americans Tune Into Nollywood
Jul 24, 2009
By Roland S. Martin
Harlem resident Tawana Lowe, 54, who has a collection of more than 350 Nollywood movies, says she no longer buys American films.
Nigerian movies saved cancer survivor Tawana Lowe’s life after doctors cut off her tumor-filled left breast.
Bedridden from aggressive radiation treatments in the summer of 2008, the Harlem, NY resident spent her days watching movies like “Hope Alive” about an innocent man who’s jailed for a crime he didn’t commit.
For the former city hospital clerk, who fought to get disability benefits even while battling cancer, the films were an oracle.
“My life is in those movies,” said Lowe of the low budget, independent films shot on location in West Africa and known for vivid storylines that range from the comical to the supernatural. “That’s my therapy session right there,” she said.
In the last 17 years the Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood, has exploded, surpassing Hollywood as the world’s second largest film producer.
In 2006, Nollywood churned out 872 movies, compared to 485 major films the U.S. produced, according to a study by UNESCO. Bollywood, the India-based industry that’s currently the world’s top moviemaker produced 1,091 the same period.
With U.S. inspired titles like “Beyonce and Rihanna,” a recent release about two rival singers both vying for a rapper’s affection, Nollywood is steadily courting a new audience these days — African Americans–like Tawana Lowe. And even Black Hollywood’s taking note.
Before his tax troubles, Wesley Snipes visited Abuja and met with filmmakers about collaborating on future film projects. In 2007, Danny Glover was the keynote speaker at the Nollywood Foundation’s annual convention.
Dr. Sylvester Ogbechie, vice-president of the California-based foundation aimed at promoting the Nigerian film industry in the U.S., isn’t surprised by the interest African Americans are showing in Nigerian movies.
“It’s the only film industry in the world that’s entirely controlled by black people,” Ogbechie said of Nollywood which generates around $200 million in revenue per year.
The industry is ripe for deep-pocketed Hollywood investors Ogbechie said, adding it’s only a matter of time before a “Slumdog Millionaire” emerges from Nigeria, referencing the hit that stole this year’s Oscars and squarely put Bollywood on Tinseltown’s radar.
But not everybody’s gung-ho about Nollywood.
Director Spike Lee criticized the industry when asked by a Nigerian reporter how his country’s filmmakers could improve their craft.
“You are from Nigeria, Lagos? Those people are bootlegging my films a lot,” Lee told the reporter at last month’s Cannes International Advertising Film Festival, according to the blog naijarules.com
Lee’s comments not only raise questions about the quality of Nollywood movies shot by amateur filmmakers on shoestring budgets of $15,000-25,000, but also the business practices behind their distribution.
A portion of Nollywood’s revenue can’t even be accounted for due to rife bootlegging that’s almost considered standard practice.
Corrupt business deals including the infamous Nigerian letter and e-mail frauds have helped solidify the country as the scam capital of the world and lend to reasons why Nollywood hasn’t seen an influx of American investment.
“That perception does play a big part in people’s willingness to go open handedly in Nigeria,” agreed Nigerian-born British actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim.
Kae-Kazim, who’s starred in “Hotel Rwanda” and the Fox series “24″, says Black Hollywood isn’t rushing to invest in Nigerian movies because they are still struggling to get their own stories to the big screen and don’t as yet see a “worthwhile investment” in the West African industry .
If and when Black Hollywood invests in Nollywood it will be welcomed by hard core fans like Tawana Lowe.
On a rainy Tuesday, Lowe was on a mission to win converts to Nollywood.
Armed with a shopping list, Lowe visited African Movies Mall. The tiny storefront on W.165th street off of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx boasts being the largest distributor of Nollywood films in the country.
Lowe perused the shelves stacked with Nollywood’s latest offerings including “The Sleepwalker,” “Princess Tyra,” “Emerald,” and “Fantasia Fantasy.” She left loaded down with two shopping bags full of movies.
The films she bought weren’t just to add to the massive collection of more than 350 Nollywood films she has arranged in alphabetical order and color coded on her bedroom bookshelf.
This weekend she will send over a dozen movies by Priority mail to her aunt and uncle in Gainesville, FL, as well as to a friend in Newark, Maryland, whom she’s introduced the films to.
“It’s about spreading the word,” said Lowe committed to preaching the gospel of Nollywood to other African Americans.
“The time is coming, eventually it’s going to cross over, and when it does, it’s going to hit big!” she said with absolute certainty.
African Americans Tune Into Nollywood | News One
Another thing, with all this talk about "419 email scams", can they even quantify the scams? I have yet to see an article that collects all the data of countries and their scams and juxtapose them to determine that Nigeria is the "scam capital of the world". I feel like its more propaganda than anything.[DOUBLEPOST=1397393620][/DOUBLEPOST]
Man i just finished watching this entire movie
It came up in my youtube recommendations and the still shot of the chicks dancing made me click...I said to myself i was gonna turn it off after watching that scene, but i got hooked lol...the plot of this sh!t is flat out ridiculous and barely makes sense or has any kind of continuity,i lost count of the number of scenes that made me, and it ends with absolutely ZERO resolution...but i just sat and righteously watched all an hour and 15 minutes of that sh!t
at the chick at 12:40...damn. 
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Nollywood put in that work on 419.
Yahoo millionaire - Nigeria Nollywood movie
Published on Jan 26, 2013
Jerry,[Desmond Elliot] a player and also into internet scam having his best friend Chizy (Fred Aseroma)his lawyer to cover up his tracks started having problem with his friend all because of a girl called Oyinda? Who is Oyinda? And what is she to one of them? Find out in this Compelling movie Yahoo Millionaire 1&2.Starring Desmond Elliot, Rita Dominic, Uche Jombo, Fred Aseroma. Produced by Emem Isong/Hyacinth Onwuka and Directed by Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen.
The End Of An Assignment In Nigeria By Tim Newman
The End Of An Assignment In Nigeria By Tim Newman | Sahara Reporters
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If this is true, why do you c00n so hard on here?
Post some examples of me c00ning or stop quoting me. You've been on my dikk EXTRA hard and I don't even know who you are
wild100sboy
:mjpls:
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
I miss that nikka so much.[DOUBLEPOST=1397396587][/DOUBLEPOST]
I bet it aint as good as Rhianna and Beyonce
"The only way to stardom is talent" -- now that is ridiculous
Did it?
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
i fukking love the internet.
Nollywood turns racebending on its head. Good for them. fukking. Good. For. Them. That whole cover blows my mind, then makes me want to stand up and clap. Nollywood, lead the way.
They can try to dicredit Nigeria all they want. In my eyes those scams were hilariously cruel to the stupid among us. A fool and his money are soon parted...Its a shame they keep smearing Nigeria's name with the whole "419 e-mail scam" thing. They brought it up in this article and it had absolutely nothing to do with Nollywood or the Harlem lady that collects them.
Another thing, with all this talk about "419 email scams", can they even quantify the scams? I have yet to see an article that collects all the data of countries and their scams and juxtapose them to determine that Nigeria is the "scam capital of the world". I feel like its more propaganda than anything.[DOUBLEPOST=1397393620][/DOUBLEPOST]
That shyt >>>>> white collar mortgage crime
Goat poster
KANG LIFE
Me and my friends would watch that Beyonce and Rihanna movie in college PURE COMEDY
DStyles
Vegan
