Nollywood has been ready for the world for a while now. It left behind the days of poor acting, scripting and picture qualities after beckoning investors for support to perfect its content.

In 2023, Nollywood is halfway there.

So far, Nollywood has gotten to be a genre-layered industry that has a library steeped with amazing content. The first African Amazon Original, “Gangs of Lagos,” by Jadesola Osiberu, has just been released from Nollywood. The movie succeeded in its dissection of street life in Lagos.

Gift, Obalola and Ify are employed by Kazeem a crime lord, having had some practice stealing on the street as kids. Obalola is to be a ring leader as he believes, taking after his father who was killed as a street king. Their new job isn’t very different from what they are experienced with, as they have had a taste of the dark side due to hard life.

However, the friends do hope for the best. Obalala hopes for decent a career in politics and Ify hopes to be a singer. However, their environment – a drug dealers’ and human trafficking den is not the most suitable for people with such dreams. The friends continually find themselves on the dark side of life racketeering, stealing, murdering and engaging in political corruption.

Gift (Adesua Etomi Wellington )

Adesua Etomi, the often savage lead actor – Sugar Rush, Muna – remember, she plays Gift. She is one of the four main characters who are Kazeem’s messengers.

Gift pairs with Oba to do reckless assignments in Nigeria’s megacity, Lagos endangering their lives aimlessly in a series of gory rebellious political battles. The character is less ambitious, unlike her friends, Oba and Ify but is captivating in every slide she appears in.

The director of Gangs of Lagos, Jadesola Osiberu is locked in on some future investment deals with Amazon Prime Video.