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Nigeria: Filmmakers battle islamists

Jan-Philipp ScholzSeptember 23, 2016

More than 200 movies are produced yearly in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Locals are calling it „Kanywood“. The film industry has become so successful, that the municipal government wants to build a film studio. Massive protests by Islamic hardliners managed to get the project stopped - but Kanywood's filmmakers are fighting back.

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