Christmas Specials | Nollywood
Lights, camera, Africa
Movies are uniting a disparate continent, and dividing it too
|ABUJA, ACCRA AND LAGOS
AN AFRICAN academic with a coiffed mane is sipping coffee in a Ghanaian airport when he spots a pulpy Nigerian film on an overhead screen. “A travesty, a grave crime,” he splutters. “Such imbecile images should never be shown in this country. They are veritably poisoning our culture.”
This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline "Lights, camera, Africa"
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