yoruba actors are better because of their theoretical/educational background. yoruba has always laid lots of emphasis on education and this is the bedrock of their movie genre. i guess this solves your confusion as to why these people are good. yeah they are good because of their ethnic origin and their ethnicity laying high emphasis on education.

Donzman:

@Ronkebaby

Have you ever heard of Zulu Sofola? Professor Ossie Onuora (Ossie Melody) Enekwe? Professor Catherine Chinweizu Acholonu, Okechukwu K. Ugorji, Paul Ndu, Obiora Udechukwu, Ernest Emenyonu, Buchi Emecheta and Elechi Amadi just to name a few.

How do you imagine a people like Igbos, so enterprising with reach far and wide haven't produced any notable playwrights?. . . Ok o
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Donzman:

You don't know Elechi Amadi?. . . You're even more ethnocentric than I thought.

chidexy:

Ronkebaby. You are really a bigotted ignorant. If you remain in your locality, fixated with your idealized nonsense, how would you know about such polished great literary minds. Historically, at least within the contemporary nigerian literature, the yorubas have been more inclined to playwriting, while the Igbos dominate the prose. can you give me a decent prose written by a yoruba that's worth reading, apart from a few from Soyinka.

TerraCotta:

You people are funny sha--this discussion is never-ending.

Ronkebaby--Elechi Amadi and Buchi Emechita on Donzman's list are pretty well-known (as novelists, at least). This discusssion don miss road a while ago, though. Donzman's insistence on measuring talent through money makes little sense, and I'm sure he knows that. Otherwise, people like Tom Cruise would be winning Oscars every year (he's never won one and was until recently the highest-paid actor in Hollywood/the world), while people like Hugh Laurie (multi-talented novelist, television comedian, Englishman playing an American doctor on the TV show 'House') or Gael Garcia Marquez would be making $20 million each movie. The equation is not that simple.

On the other hand, this stuff about Yorubas being the best actors simply because they're Yorubas is pretty tired and makes no sense. If you prefer the acting in Yoruba movies, just say so and move on. Prefer English movies? Good for you--no yawa. Movie preferences are not exactly a science--I don't get how either side is going to convince the other that their preference is right. Shake hands, slap each other on the butts, swap shirts, and go on to something new

Love44:

How come majority of Yoruba people are so tribalistic and also find it hard to associate with other people other than their tribe. I am calabar to be exact,

Orikinla:

From the stage in the 1980S to the screen in the 1990s to date, I have been on sets with the leading Yoruba and Igbo actors. Therefore, I can say what I know from experience.

Yoruba actors are true artists and their naturalism makes them better actors.

When there was no money in acting, most of the Igbo actors were not interested in acting.
But when the Igbo Electronics traders saw that they could import cassettes and CDs and fill them with B-rated home movies to be sold to their housewives and fellow Igbos, they jumped on the stage and are very artificial, because the greed for capital is their pivot and not the love for the Art.
Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO).

Why are they always shouting when they are speaking, even when they are meant to be a couple making love alone in the bedroom?

You are watching a Nollywood movie, you just see that they are artificial. They are too camera conscious.
Genevieve and Ini Edo are displaying for their boyfreiends and sugar daddies before the cameras.

I won't mention the other names, because they are my relations and pals. And when you tell them the truth, they refuse to accept their faults.

South Africa is not the third largest movie making country in the world, but South Africa has won two Oscars and have qualified for highly rated film festivals where Nollywood films did not even qualify for screening.

From Pa Orlando Martins to Olu Jacobs, Yoruba actors have blazed the trail in acting.

A script does not make a good actor, but a good actor makes a script great.

15 years of Nollywood and all we can boast of is quantity?