{"id":205395,"date":"2025-08-24T17:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/nigeria-how-nollywood-films-help-kenyan-housemaids-make-sense-of-their-lives\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:44:44","slug":"nigeria-how-nollywood-films-help-kenyan-housemaids-make-sense-of-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/nigeria-how-nollywood-films-help-kenyan-housemaids-make-sense-of-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How Nollywood Films Help Kenyan Housemaids Make Sense of Their Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/from-nollywood-to-new-nollywood-the-story-of-nigerias-runaway-success-47959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nollywood<\/a>, Nigeria&#8217;s prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">These low-budget, high-output films and TV series immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13696815.2018.1451747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck a chord<\/a> with ordinary people in lower income brackets. Although new Nollywood productions can be <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-black-book-is-a-gritty-new-thriller-that-raises-the-bar-for-nollywood-215350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/seven-doors-sweeping-nigerian-netflix-series-masters-the-art-of-storytelling-251831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high budget<\/a> affairs, the bulk are not about high production values. They&#8217;re about real-life stories and social issues that are easy to relate to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">At first Nollywood films were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood, Nigeria&#8217;s prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century. These low-budget, high-output films and TV series immediately struck a chord with ordinary people in lower income brackets. Although new Nollywood productions can be slick, high budget affairs, the bulk are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":205396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,28896,52193,430,4524,8485,257,4687,9492,21785,254],"class_list":["post-205395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-films","tag-housemaids","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-lives","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nollywood","tag-sense","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}