If you’ve ever been on a long bus ride in Africa on a nice coach, you’ve probably seen some Nigerian films. These soap opera-ish English-language films are produced by the third largest film industry in the world, Nollywood. Filled with African actors, poor sound, awful lighting, and scandalous plot lines, these films are wildly popular here in Zambia. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out how people could enjoy these films so much. How could you prefer to watch these low budget pictures over slick, expensive, perfectly lit, sharp sounding Hollywood flicks? At first I thought maybe the plot lines resounded better with Africans, or they preferred to watch movies with black casts, or these movies where simply more affordable. With a bit more time I have come to think that it is probably a
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