Long before the explosion of home video productions in the late 80s, the seeds of Nollywood were sown in the fertile ground of television dramas such as Cockcrow at Dawn, Village Headmaster, The Masquerade, and Mirror in the Sun. These initial works, restricted in their scale by the limitations of TV broadcasts, laid the foundation for the storytelling that would characterise Nollywood. Cockcrow at Dawn, a pioneering play in the 1970s, combined social critique with realistic portrayals of rural life. Situated in an imaginary Nigerian village, the film addressed conflicts between tradition and modernity, disputes over land ownership, and the

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