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A man passes by Nigerian movie billboards at a cinema in Lagos on February 19, 2019.

A man passes by Nigerian movie billboards at a cinema in Lagos on February 19, 2019.

Photo by CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP via Getty Images.

Nollywood: A Complete History of How It Came to Be

The term has long come to be used to describe Nigerian films, but the industry has come a long way from where it first started.