About twenty years ago the Nigerian movie industry, otherwise known as Nollywood, in an ‘cleansing move’ kicked out themes of witchcraft, ritualism and greed that dominated some of the early movies. While today, the practice has shifted and lovers
of the country’s films are helplessly being
compelled to watch obscéne movies which
promotes immorality and cultures that are alien
to us as Africans. Indeed, recent survey has shown that
pórnographic movies are increasingly taking
over Nollywood. Ardent followers of the recent development in
the industry would have noticed the disturbing
increase in the degree of núdity portrayed in
some of the recent Nollywood flicks. Regrettably, Nollywood actors have thrown
caution to the wind as they now venture into
hard core pórnographic roles. The internet, and particularly YouTube, is not
helping matters as it is one avenue frenquently
used by these desperate, and materialistic soft-
pron producers to gain wide popularity for
such obscéne movies. Until recently, the production of sóft-pórn
movies only thrives in Ghana. They were
considered bold enough to engage in séxually
suggestive roles. This, however, paved the way for the
popularity of Ghollywood movies in the
country, as Nigerians, out of curiosity,
patronized Ghanaian films just to see how far
they were willing to go with this obscénity. But today, the story has changed. Nollywood
practitioners who have been very conservative
when it comes to displaying séx and núdity on
screen, are now leading the way with the
production of pórnographic movies. Some of the soft-pórn movies that have
flooded the Nigerian and African markets in
the past few years includes: The Benjamins,
Greedy Séx, Room 027, Another Game of Men,
Bold 5 Babes, Bedroom Assassins, All My
Ladies, My Pretty Angel, Take My Wife (Pretty Wild Things), Pool Party and I slept with My
Bosses Wife. Interestingly, the production of gáy movies are
also on the increase. Last year, popular
producer Dickson Iroegbu, released a gáy
movie, “Law 58″ where Kanyo starred. O.Kanyo, who played the lead character,
Clarion Chukwurah, Halima Abubakar,
Ghanaian actor, Kofi Adjorlolo, Mark Morris,
Chibueze, and other Nollywood stars. Also, gáy movies like, Pregnant Hawkers, Sinful
Act 1&2 and also a Yoruba movie, titled,
“Lésbian” were also released into the market. Still on soft-pórn movies, the most recent of
these hardcore pórn movies is “Destructive
Instincts”, produced recently and starring
Nigerian born American actress c*m producer,
Judith Opara Mazagwu popularly known as
Afro Candy. In the movie, Afro Candy played the role of a
seductive mistress, with a steamy séx scene
where a male actor was grappling her bare
bréasts and búttocks. Her boldness and unrepentant attitude about
her act was attested to when she took to her
facebook page asking for actors who could act
núde roles and are interested in being a part of
her production to get in touch with her. Shortly after the noise about Afrocandy and
the lewd scenes, another soft-pórn movie,
“The “Benjamins” surfaced with its trailer. The movie produced by Charles Smooth X
Edegbe and directed by Temple Chinedum is a
high class campus movie based on rap music
and love. According to some critics, the movie isn’t worth
releasing because, it was a sheer display of
obscénity and mediocrity. However, it is on record that soft pórn movies
started flooding Nigerian movie markets about
two years ago, when controversial actress,
Tonto Dike starred in “Strippers in Love”, a soft-
pórn movie produced by Divine Touch
Productions. Scenes from the movie showed Tonto kissing
another female cast and x-rated scenes with
another actor. She had earlier starred in “Dirty Secrets”.
Apparently, with these kinds of unholy movies
dominating the Nigerian movie space,
questions are being asked today regarding the
future of Nollywood. Many people are of the opinion that the current
trend which must be discouraged remains a
degradation of values that we hold as Africans

Values that impede ur thinking faculties.
Values that deter our countries development.

Values that must be replaced