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'As I write this, thousands of original films from the golden age of Nollywood, and by extension, the isolated, uncompressed master mixes of the era’s greatest, weirdest soundtracks, are quite literally rotting away.'
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/nollywood-film-archive/
Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive | The Quietus
There is a ticking clock that could spell doom for an entire era of Nigerian cultural history, a countdown that with every passing second sees the brutal, unforgiving humidity of the West African coastline actively eating more and more of a vital, unofficial archive. VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, […]