1. According to a 2010 report by the Veri?cation Unit of the National Film and Video Censors Board, 1612 Nigerian films were submitted to the board in 2010. 1114 were approved for release. See NFVCB (2010) Annual Report for 2010 from Film Veri?cation Unit, December 31.
2. Ukadike, N. F. (1994) Black African Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press.
3. Haynes, J. (ed) (2000) Nigerian Video Films, Revised and Expanded Edition. Athens, OH: Ohio University Centre for International Studies.
4. Some Hausa and Yoruba films continued to screen on a circuit of individual film shows in cinemas to recoup costs before being released on video. See Haynes (2000) for a historical description of Yoruba film shows, and my interviews with Hausa filmmakers Saeed Selbar (2008) in Jos and Abbas Sadiq (2006) in Kano. Recently there has been an upsurge of larger budget “new Nollywood” films that run for several weeks to months in multiplex cinemas in Nigerian’s largest cities.
5. Larkin, B. (2008) Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham/London: Duke University Press