This decade, the world was astounded by Nollywood more than in the previous one. There’s also been positive reaction to some of the Nigerian movies from the 2010s than ever. It is hard to tell what fashion Nollywood will take on the next decade. But there is a good chance the industry will be using their own live footage from the moon soon. That’s if the creative industry gets the funds promised by the government. Right now, there’s only one way to know what Nollywood will be, and that is by looking back on this decade.
’93 Days’ (2015) – The world escaped a plaque when a Nigerian doctor died fighting to keep her country safe from it
Nollywood is not so good at acknowledging heroic acts and real societal issues. But making the movie ’93 Days’ in honour of Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh was a remarkable move.
In the August 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa, Dr Adadevoh’s fight to keep Nigeria from Ebola attack saved not just the country, but the rest of the world. We continue to imagine what the world would have been today if she hadn’t fought so hard. She and her team kept the virus from going into circulation in Nigeria. In reference to the effort of the Bill Gates Foundation to eradicate polio from the world – that got stuck in the last country, Nigeria. Containing a virus – like Ebola which is extremely contagious – in Nigeria must have extremely hard.
Dr Adadevoh has been honoured with over 14 posthumous awards for her fight for the world. Her memory lives on in the heart of every Nigerian. ’93 Days’ features Ayo Adesanya and Danny Glover.
‘Living in Bondage: Breaking Free’ – (2019) – The resurrected movie is prooving Nollywood has a future with sequels
If you think you have seen the best of Nollywood, then you haven’t seen anything. Cinema in Nigeria is just about to change after ‘Living in Bondage’ resurrected with a sequel 27 years later. This movie supposedly established Nollywood as the Nigerian movie industry. ‘Living in Bondage: Breaking Free’ is going over the roof at the box office. It currently stands as the highest-grossing movie of 2019 after four weeks of its release.
We hoped that the disqualification of ‘Lionheart’ was fiction, but it is the reality of Nigerians – ‘Lionheart’ – 2018
Earlier this year, it seemed like the dream to enter Nigerian movies for Academy awards was going to come through when Lionheart was selected among 94 films. Days later the news broke that ‘Lionheart’ had been disqualified for being too English. (Read our article on that). This caused a global reaction and we can’t help but wonder what this means for Nigerian movies.
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