The Cannes Film Festival ends today with top movies in competition for the most coveted prize, the Palme d'Or. All the top Hollywood and Bollywood stars and stars from South Africa, Chad, Tunisia and others are there on the red carpet. But no Nollywood star was invited, because no Nollywood movie has qualified for Cannes or the Oscars.

The best Nollywood movies have ever done are competing for AMAA and AMVCA. Even Chad next door has a film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. And this is not the first time. While Nollywood in more than 22 years cannot boast of any movie in or out of competition at the annual Cannes Film Festival.

Nollywood only competes on the African stage and not the world stage, because majority of Nollywood filmmakers and stars are not ambitious enough.

Their ultimate dream is to buy a Range Rover and live in a mansion. Finis. And that is nothing in Hollywood and Bollywood where filmmakers and actors spend millions of dollars on charities and compete at the Cannes and Oscars for the highest honors. Even if the Nollywood super stars, Genevieve Nnaji and Omotola Jalade Ekeinde should be at the Cannes today, they will not be on the red carpet, except they gate crash or a top star pulls either of them along. .

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