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Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria Ed. PiErrE BArrOT Oxford: James Currey; ibadan: HEBN; Bloomington: indiana uP, 2008. xii + 128 pp. isBN 978-0-253-22117-9 paper.
Pierre Barrot edited and wrote the first half of this splendid introduction to the Nigerian video film industry. A journalist who spent four years in Lagos as audiovisual attaché to the French Embassy, he has a deep understanding of Nollywood and has assembled a strong group of collaborators-Nigerian filmmakers and (mostly African) journalists-to round out the picture, introduce an array of vigorous voices, and provide glimpses of the remarkable spread of Nollywood films across Africa. The chapters are brief, studded with illustrations, and interspersed with fourteen brief profiles of individual films. All this makes for a rapid...