How Nigeria's Nollywood is still dominating the African movie scene

By Oral Ofori

The Nollywood sign in Nigeria, an icon of Africa's movie industry

Ask an avid African movie watcher to name ten of their favorite African actors or movies and you would be assured of getting more than two of the actors or movies belonging to Nigeriain actors. Obviously Nigerian movies and actors have dominated the African movie scene and this piece is to shed some light on why I think that is the case.

Rocky Dawuni believes the digital age presents a perfect time to download Africa's revolution

By Oral Ofori

Cover of Rocky Dawuni's international hit album

The first time I heard of Rocky Dawuni was on Ghana Television in the year 2000. I had graduated from high school about a year ago and was grappling with job hunting and still finding my feet on the playing field of the game of life. I already knew I wanted to become a journalist during my junior high school days and I followed up on this dream by majoring in History, English Literature and Governance in high school to prepare myself.