It has been revealed that Netflix, the online global streaming platform, has ceased commissioning Nigerian originals, acquiring movies and funding movies in the country effective November 2024.
Since entering the African market in 2016, and the Nigerian market in 2020, the first from the league of streaming platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney Plus and HBO, the platform has been behind some of the country’s biggest and most successful Indigenous productions.
Notable Nigerian Originals include King of Boys, Citation, Far From Home, Blood Sisters, Lionheart, Shanty Town, Anikulapo and Oloture.
Femi Adebayo’s ‘Seven Doors’ debuts on 13 December on the platform, and Kemi Adetiba’s ‘To Kill a Monkey’ might be among the last Nigerian originals following this decision.
Netflix’s latest decision comes almost two years after its biggest rival in Nigeria, Amazon Prime Video, made the same move.
In January 2024, Amazon, on Prime Video, downsized…