ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the concept of Nollywood geographies in greater detail, further outlining the book’s central objectives. Nollywood’s status as a national (and “natural”) resource is not unrelated to that of Nigeria as a historically significant source of tin, coal, timber, and petroleum. How might the industry be understood through the lenses of the extractive enterprises that surround it? What insights into resource extraction does Nollywood provide, and what bearing does the planetary scope of climate change have on these linkages? Can the histories of African cinemas, including Nollywood, be profitably rethought in relation to extraction and the climate crisis? Where is Nollywood heading—both physically and conceptually—as rising seas threaten to overtake its coastal hubs?
