With a growing Entertainment industry that now stands at a staggering US$250 million, Nigeria's entertainment industry also called 'Nollywood' is expanding online and iRokotv has helped to further the frontiers.
Built on a simple business principle that there are millions of Nigerians in diaspora where internet bandwidth is cheaper and readily available, iRokotv have been able to achieve remarkable success in pushing Nollywood movies across the borders and now with Ghanian movies on the offers.
The site, www.irokotv.com have been redesigned to have movies in various categories and genres with freebies included. Viewers can search for their various movies titles or favorite actors and actresses with apps also available for Blackberry users to access their movies from their smartphones in similar fashion to Netflix and others.
The cinema of Nigeria grew quickly in the 1990s and 2000s to become the second largest film industry in the world in terms of number of annual film productions, placing it ahead of the United States and behind the Indian film industry. According to Hala Gorani and Jeff Koinange formerly of CNN, Nigeria has a US$250 million movie industry, creating some 200 videos for the home video market every month.
Nigerian cinema is Africa's largest movie industry in terms of both value and the number of movies produced per year. Although Nigerian films have been produced since the 1960s, the rise of affordable digital filming and editing technologies has stimulated the country's video film industry. The Nigerian video feature film industry is sometimes colloquially known as Nollywood, having been derived as a play on Hollywood in the same manner as Bollywood according to Wikipedia.
So next time you want to watch a Nigerian movie, you can do it online but that's if you have the sufficient internet bandwidth of course!
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