Nollywood's Julia Roberts

Nollywood, Nigeria's film industry and the world's second largest film industry based on production, has increasingly become more and more popular outside of Africa. And its films have gotten better.

Yes, the classic "bad" Nollywood films are still around, and probably will be for a long time, but as Nigeria's economy continues to grow and stabilize and more people are moving out of poverty into a stable middle class, these movies have some upgrades, too.

One of these movies would be The Mirror Boy, starring who Oprah dubbed as Africa's Julia Roberts, Genevieve Nnaji. CNN International reports that she is one of the continent's most recognizable faces. I also must add that is she also one of the prettiest.

As Nigeria transforms to it's full potential, it looks like it's movie industry will to. My next hope is that a Nollywood film is actually featured at an internationally acclaimed film festival (and maybe Genevieve will be the star).