Nigeria's new GDP and the film business

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as the continent's biggest economy. And Nollywood - the country's homegrown film industry - accounts for nearly one and a half per cent of GDP.

It's a sign of how far the movie industry has come that Nigerian films like Half of a Yellow Sun are now reaching audiences around the world, and that people like Jason Njoku - boss of iROKOtv, Nigeria's answer to Netflix - are in Cannes this week drumming up more business for Nollywood...