Onitsha, NigeriaNollywood Began Because a Nigerian Trader Couldn't Sell His Blank VHS Tapes
Nollywood's home-video boom began in 1992, when electronics trader Kenneth Nnebue financed Living in Bondage partly to sell his stock of blank Taiwanese VHS tapes. It sold over 750,000 copies, by The Economist's count. Nigeria's post-1986 cinema collapse, existing piracy networks and trained TV professionals made that boom possible.