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Nigeria on-screen: 'Nollywood' films' popularity rising among emigres
STEVEN GRAY, (Washington Post) - Simba International Records just can't keep enough Nigerian movies in stock these days. Teenagers swarm into the Langley Park shop in baggy jeans and T-shirts for the latest comedies. Middle-aged women usually want the romances.
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African Songs UK revives the good ol' times
SEGUN FAJEMISIN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - African Songs UK, the new recording label operating from Deptford in South East London, is an offshoot of the renowned African Songs/TYC Records of old which made tremendous musical impact under the late Chief Bolarinwa Abioro. more >>
A pretty film for a dirty world...New movie focuses on immigrants
KEN IKE OKERE, (Nigeriaworld) - At last there's a major movie that highlights the immigrant experience in a positive light. Stephen Frears' movie, Dirty Pretty Things, is a gripping thriller that tells the story of an illegal Nigerian immigrant, Okwe, (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who stumbles unto a detached human heart in the toilet of the hotel room where he works.
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Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: King of Music (and of All He Surveyed)
HOLLAND COTTER, (New York Times) - So, in a far more circumscribed way, does "Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo.
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Step Aside, Los Angeles and Bombay, for Nigeria's Nollywood
NORIMITSU ONISHI, Lagos (New York Times) - As the sun rises over West Africa's new moviemaking capital, the Surulere district of Lagos, the cast and crew of "Blackmailed" form a four-car convoy to leave for their first day of shooting.
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