Nollywood Week Film Festival gets underway in Paris

The 11th Nollywood Week Film Festival kicked off in the French capital, Paris, on Thursday. As its name suggests, this festival is all about Nigerian cinema, but it’s not the only one.

Over a period of four days, the large numbers of visitors will be able to watch productions from countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Morocco, and even the United States.

In total, more than a dozen short and feature-length films are showing, to the delight of African film fans.

Aissata Seck is director of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’esclavage (Foundation for the Memory of…