Forget Hollywood. How About Nollywood?

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.20.06 | 12:34 PM ET

What’s Nollywood? As World Hum books editor Frank Bures reports in today’s Los Angeles Times, it’s Nigeria’s thriving film industry, “which, in terms of sheer numbers of movies made, has grown bigger than either Hollywood or Bollywood—with estimates of 500 to 1,500 new films being shot each year.” Bures was recently in Nigeria, and his vivid story takes readers inside Lagos video shops and explores how the low-budget films are made.