Media in Africa

4/27/10 4:12 PM History • Grew between 1990’s and 2000’s • Soon became the second largest film industry in terms of how many films produced • Reports say the Nigerian film industry is worth $250 million • Film industry puts out 200 films per month on... More

4/27/10 4:12 PM History • Grew between 1990’s and 2000’s • Soon became the second largest film industry in terms of how many films produced • Reports say the Nigerian film industry is worth $250 million • Film industry puts out 200 films per month on average for the home movie market • Africa’s largest movie industryin both value and number produced • The introduction of affordable digital filming and various editing technologies Beginning of a industry • Filmmakers Ola Balogun and Hubert Ogunde in the 1960’s were the “pioneers” of the industry • Television broadcasting in Nigeria started to get governmental support in the 1960’s which allowed in the 1980’s every state to have a station • These stations created videos which led the way for the start of the video movie trade in Nigeria • Living in Bondage created by NEK Video Links in 1992 (owned by Kenneth Nnebue) created the Nollywood which is here today • The people of Igbos created a business where distribution of home videos was b Less