"Fred was talking about Nollywood, speaking a little too loudly. 'Nollywood is really public theatre, and if you understand it like that, then it is more tolerable. It's for public consumption, even mass participation, not the kind of individual experience that film is.' He was looking at her, soliciting her agreement with his eyes: they were not supposed to watch Nollywood, people like them, and if they did, then only as amusing anthropology."'I like Nollywood,' Ifemelu said, even though she, too, thought Nollywood was more theatre than film. The urge to be contrarian was strong. If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become. 'Nollywood may be melodramatic, but life in Nigeria is very melodramatic.'"
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Americanah
Life in Nigeria is indeed very melodramatic and that is what Nollywood is all about. I love Nollywood more because it makes me sometimes to laugh at my day to day dealings with people, laugh away my sorrows and even cry at the many wrong doings in society. It is indeed our lifestyle because you can never give what you don't have. Nollywood is purely Naija.
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DeleteNollywood for life. Notin dey happen.
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