What is Nollywood? Depending on who you ask, Nollywood represents the creative efforts of a few Nigerians to make films that disrupt normative filmmaking practices on the African continent. Unlike the pedagogic, militant, and revolutionary auteur African cinema of the early 1930s through the 1990s, Nollywood grew as a nondescript art form, which utilized the commonplace video technology (which is not adapted for filmmaking) to tell stories about Africans and their engagement with neoliberal capitalism. The industry provides a new way of re/defining, re/engaging, and re/interpreting Afrocentric ideologies and perspectives that films/cinema underscore.  Therefore, Nollywood has become an essential component of African cinema, and “it is the Pan-Africanism we have,” especially regarding how it gives voices to a spectrum of cultural and folkloric views (Mccall, 2007). In this presentation, I discuss how Nollywood films are decolonial attempts by Nigerian filmmakers to promote African languages, cultural perspectives, and indigenous cinematic aesthetics. The discussion will also include the troubling impact of global capitalism in Nollywood’s attempt to decolonize African cinema.