Wale Adelabu

Nollywood: Nigerian Movies Provide Gateway to African Entertainment Via Technology

Nigerian Entertainment industry opens to technological effects.

 

Louisville, KY -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/14/2011 -- October 15, 2011 Naijavideos.com, the exciting, engaging, and fun website where Nigerians, and Africans in general, can share their traditional and personal experiences through videos, has re-launched its new design for its United States of America’s audience.

“Because Nollywood has become a very successful entertainment industry promoting Nigeria’s tradition through motion picture, therefore, we have to think into the future with creativity that project the success” said Wale Adelabu, one of the creators of NaijaVideos, which aggregates and collects Nigerian Movies online for the viewing of its audience.

According to Wale, Nigerian entertainment industry has come a long way. “The journey,” he claimed, “has taken four decades of eloquent story telling of the Nigerian culture and tradition using western technology.”

NaijaVideos is making it even easier to create a strong African community by integrating facebook platform to make it easier for its audience to spread their uploaded videos to family members and friends. Activity has taken off the last few days providing a variety of helpful web-based tools to stay up to date with the new social network aspect. As Wale said, “is about maximizing the Nigerian experience and building bridges amongst Nigerians in Diaspora using the internet connection to spread and share high quality motion picture of Nigerian cultural background.”

Not withstanding the creator’s focus, the website still have issues like low quality of streaming videos on the site, and most of the films are not subtitled, which the outreach of the site. However, like Nollywood, the site has room to adapt and improve on its presentation on Nigerian entertainment. “We know there are obstacles to overcome, and I believe we can easily do that.” Wale concluded.