West Africa

===Film industry===
{{See|Cinema of Africa#West Africa}}
[[Nollywood]] of Nigeria, is the main film industry of West Africa. The Nigerian cinema industry is the second largest film industry in terms of number of annual film productions, ahead of the [[Cinema of the United States|American film industry]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]].<ref>{{cite web |access-date=30 September 2009 |url=https://www.un.org/apps//news/story.asp?NewsID=30707&Cr=nigeria&Cr1= |title=Nigeria surpasses Hollywood as world's second-largest film producer – UN |publisher=United Nations |date=5 May 2009}}</ref> [[Cinema of Senegal|Senegal]] and [[Cinema of Ghana|Ghana]] also have long traditions of producing films. The late [[Ousmane Sembène]], the Senegalese film director, producer and writer is from the region, as is the [[Ghanaian]] [[Shirley Frimpong-Manso]].