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Onitsha Home Movies subscriber-only content

Adewale Maja-Pearce

The last decade has seen the emergence of a new kind of film industry in Nigeria. The results are known as ‘home movies’ – they are shot straight onto video and sold direct to the public. One of the new, independent television stations, MBI, was the first to air a home movie every evening. The slot was so popular that the Government-owned Nigerian Television Authority quickly followed suit.

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Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of In My Father’s Country and How Many Miles to Babylon? He lives in Lagos.
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