Nigeria Bola Abimbola, Zaki Adze, Tuface Idibia, Aṣa, Nneka, Wale, P Square and D'Banj. In November 2008, Nigeria's music scene (and that of Africa) received international attention when MTV hosted the continent's first African music awards show in Abuja. Additionally, the very first music video played on MTV Base Africa (the 100th station in the MTV network) was Tuface Idibia's pan-African hit "African Queen". The Nigerian film industry is known as Nollywood (a portmanteau of "Nigeria" and Hollywood) and is now the 2nd-largest producer of movies in the world. Nigerian film studios are based in Lagos, Kano and Enugu, forming a
Auteuring Nollywood important to the film as they are to the entire industry". Danjuma Dadu of Nigerian Film Corporation stated: ""Auteuring Nollywood" was a welcome addition to the body of knowledge on film discourse in Nigeria and that the Film Corporation is proud to be associated with it". Auteuring Nollywood Auteuring Nollywood: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine is a book released on 31 July 2014, detailing the scholarly analysis of events in the 2009 film "The Figurine" directed by Kunle Afolayan. The book is the first book in the history of Nigerian Cinema to be devoted to the work of a single