Paris gets a taste of Nigeria's film industry on Wednesday with the start of the NollywoodWeek festival, with movies exploring love, family and duty, shorts and documentaries.
Now in its 13th edition, the NOW festival this week showcases films not only from Nigeria's Nollywood but also Ghanaian, Kenyan and Senegalese productions and filmmakers from the African diaspora.
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