Nigeria's 'Kannywood' tiptoes between censor boards and modernity

Young creatives -- influenced not just by their peers in the wealthier Christian south of the country, but even as far as India -- are hoping to expand the audience beyond Nigeria's borders for the north's frenetic "Kannywood" cinema industry, known for churning out some 200 films a month. With some 80 million speakers of the north's Hausa language spread across west and central Africa -- not to mention the vast Nigerian diaspora around the world -- Kannywood's potential market is huge. Yet reconciling...