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Nollywood's home-video boom began in 1992, when electronics trader Kenneth Nnebue financed Living in Bondage partly to sell his stock of blank Taiwanese VHS tapes. It sold over 750,000 copies, by The Economist's count. Nigeria's post-1986 cinema collapse, existing piracy networks and trained TV professionals made that boom possible.
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In Madagascar, Families Dig Up Their Dead Every Few Years to Dance With Them
UK Bank Holidays Are a Regulatory Trick, Not a Legal Right
Istanbul Plants 30 Million Tulips a Year — and Almost Nobody Knows Why
In Marrakech's medina, foreign-owned tourist guesthouses grew from under 50 in 2000 to approximately 450 by 2008 — 70% of them foreign-owned. Streets designed to repel invaders were commercially converted in under a decade.
Fair Observer, 2020, citing University of Warsaw research From: Morocco's Medinas Were Built to Lose You — and That Was the Whole PointIn Finland, Drinking Alone in Your Underwear is Endorsed by the Government
Thailand's Wai Has Four Different Heights — and You're Probably Doing It Wrong
Japanese Tourists Fly 9,000 Kilometres to Watch Men in Bearskins Dance in a Romanian Coal Town
In South Korea, an Apartment Gets More Valuable the Older and More Decrepit It Gets
In Nepal, One Family Has Pierced Their Tongue Every New Year for 108 Years
Wales's Ancient Druid Ceremony Was Invented 250 Years Ago by a Criminal
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Morocco's Medinas Were Built to Lose You — and That Was the Whole Point
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The bear pack or troupe — the organized group of performers from a given village who dance together.
From: Japanese Tourists Fly 9,000 Kilometres to Watch Men in Bearskins Dance in a Romanian Coal Town