The Resurgence of Nollywood Amid the Rattling Nigeria’s Economy
Thousands of ambitious actors travel to Lagos, Enugu, Abuja, and Kaduna each year in the hope of landing the next big Nollywood role. However, they do help local businesses thrive even though the majority of them never succeed.
The sites where movies are filmed are significantly impacted by the filming process. Crews bring in a substantial stream of income for local businesses as they arrive at a location. Through expenditures on lodging, transportation, equipment, local labor, fees, and taxes, filming directly contributes to the economy of a location.
Nollywood, the tenacious and ubiquitous film industry of Nigeria, has grown into a global force with a huge following in Africa and among the diaspora of Africans. With a predicted value of $6.4 billion in 2021, it will rank second in the world in terms of the number of films produced...