The Source of Pan-African Pride!!

Nigeria's film industry, called "Nollywood", produces 2500 movies each year.  It is Africa's biggest and the world's second-largest film industry by volume, placing it right behind India's Bollywood.

Cinema of Africa is both the history and present of the making or screening of films on the African continent, and also refers to the persons involved in this form of audiovisual culture. It dates back to the early 20th century, when film reels were the primary cinematic technology in use. During the colonial era, African life was shown only by the work of white, colonial, Western filmmakers, who depicted Africans in a negative fashion, as exotic "others".  As there are more than 50 countries with audiovisual traditions, there is no one single 'African cinema'.  Both historically and culturally, there are major regional differences between North African and sub-Saharan cinemas, and between the cinemas of different countries.

The cinema of South Africa refers to the films and film industry of the nation of South Africa. Many foreign films have been produced about South Africa (usually involving race relations).  The first South African film to achieve international acclaim and recognition was the 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy, written, produced and directed by Jamie Uys.  Set in the Kalahari, it told the story about how life in the community of Bushmen is changed when a Coke bottle, thrown out of an airplane, suddenly lands from the sky.  Despite the fact that the film presented an incorrect perspective of the Khoisan san people, by framing them as a primitive society enlightened by the modernity of a falling Coke bottle.  The late Jamie Uys, who wrote and directed The Gods Must Be Crazy, also had success overseas in the 1970s with his films Funny People and Funny People II, similar to the TV series Candid Camera in the United States. Leon Schuster's You Must Be Joking! films are in the same genre, and were popular among the white population of South Africa during apartheid.

Ghallywood is  the Ghanaian Movie Industry and one of the best film industry in Africa.  According to BBC New reporter in 2019,  Ghana’s TV and film industry, known as Ghallywood, was once the pride of Africa but has now fallen on hard times. Now so movie industry like Nollywood has taken its place.  During the Nkrumah regime,  1957-1966, the Ghanaian film industry became one of the most sophisticated film industries in Africa.  Nkrumah viewed film as an almost perfect strategy to build a nation under the same values and drives.  Nkrumah decided to nationalize the Gold Coast film unit and changed its name to the “State Film Industry Corporation” and then eventually changed it again to the “Ghana Film Industry Corporation” (GFIO).  Under Nkrumah’s reign, the Ghanaian film industry was almost completely monopolized by the Ghana Film Industry Corporation.

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