Due to our lack of interest in DSTV programming in recent times, my wife has resorted to watching Yoruba movies claiming they are far better than Nollywood Ibo movies. Truly i enjoyed some aspects of Yoruba movies especially the efforts at proverbs and wise sayings. I also noticed that Babalawos are usually the first port of call when one faces any serious or seriousness problem (by the way, they have the most ugly of female actors in yoruba movies)

I doubt you should be angry over the fact that majority of Nigerians especially the Southern parts have very strong traditionalist roots tending towards spiritism and juju culture. Historical origins bear testament to the fact that before Christianity in Nigeria, there were strong African juju-culture. I am not saying that Christianity is without benefits. I just want you to understand that Yoruba movies in such a sense are keeping with reality. The last one I watched this afternoon has a spiritually-caged man seek deliverance from a Christian Cherubim and Seraphim church and was delivered, is that not balance? The movies do not ridicule Christianity in anyway, they rather serve to strengthen it. after-all Christianity is not a baby anymore and if she cannot stand on her own two feet, then we have a serious problem

lagerwhenindoubt:

Due to our lack of interest in DSTV programming in recent times, my wife has resorted to watching Yoruba movies claiming they are far better than Nollywood Ibo movies. Truly i enjoyed some aspects of Yoruba movies especially the efforts at proverbs and wise sayings. I also noticed that Babalawos are usually the first port of call when one faces any serious or seriousness problem (by the way, they have the most ugly of female actors in yoruba movies)

I doubt you should be angry over the fact that majority of Nigerians especially the Southern parts have very strong traditionalist roots tending towards spiritism and juju culture. Historical origins bear testament to the fact that before Christianity in Nigeria, there were strong African juju-culture. I am not saying that Christianity is without benefits. I just want you to understand that Yoruba movies in such a sense are keeping with reality[b]. The last one I watched this afternoon has a spiritually-caged man seek deliverance from a Christian Cherubim and Seraphim church and was delivered, is that not balance?[/b] The movies do not ridicule Christianity in anyway, they rather serve to strengthen it. after-all Christianity is not a baby anymore and if she cannot stand on her own two feet, then we have a serious problem

Don't know the difference btw a C&S Church and a Babalawo; think they work hand-in-hand. They both give something (soap, powder, sponge etc) in return for deliverance.

Since the Yoruba's tend to be more traditional rather than follow Jesus's teaching, then let them still be and leave Jesus completely out of their movies!

If Jesus really had a problem with it he would smite them himself. It's free advertising. He appreciates it! Say thank you.

bee444:

Don't know the difference btw a C&S Church and a Babalawo; think they work hand-in-hand. They both give something (soap, powder, sponge etc) in return for deliverance.

Since the Yoruba's tend to be more traditional rather than follow Jesus's teaching, then let them still be and leave Jesus completely out of their movies!

It is like saying Front-line Christian movies should leave out Sinners and Islam and other religions from their movies and talk about Christ alone, it cannot happen. Religion needs to flourish and for that to happen some other religion will be used as negative leverage.

And truly there is little man can do that God cannot do for himself

Krayo baba!

I just dey hail you, nothing dey paa,

@Topic: Stuff of legends and fantasy. As long as they have not identified themselves as Christian Movies, then they are as much fantasy as Harry Potter, and those who want to believe it's true have as much liberty as those who think it's all evil, or its crap, like you do.

I think you should leave and let be.

by the way, they have the most ugly of female actors in yoruba movies

seriously, i was thinking this very morning, about opening a thread to enquire when Yoruba became synonymous with ugly.



never been so amazed in my life as when i found out thanks mainly to nairaland, that yorubas in general have been given that tag.

do we have yoruba movies/the nigerian movie industry to thank for this?

ok!

^^^^^^ why do I think you lost your boyfriend to a yoruba lady, at one time or the other?

InesQor:

Krayo baba!

I just dey hail you, nothing dey paa,

@Topic: Stuff of legends and fantasy. As long as they have not identified themselves as Christian Movies, then they are as much fantasy as Harry Potter, and those who want to believe it's true have as much liberty as those who think it's all evil, or its crap, like you do.

I think you should leave and let be.

You dey offend me oo, don't you think this thing is getting out of hands?
Imagine I offend a Yoruba actor/producer/director, would going to a babalawo be the first point of action? I am going to lead a protest for the boycott of this nonsense. Can't allow the generations to come to be part or witness this obsolete act!

fyneguy:

^^^^^^ why do I think you lost your boyfriend to a yoruba lady, at one time or the other?

because you're psychic

it was one of those big buttocked yoruba ladies.

If you hate it that much, then, no need to watch it and getting yourself angry

bee444 its like you read my mind about yoruba movies all there story base on babalawos always . my question is it every things that hapen have one thing or the other to do with babalawos, im tired of this poor director and producers in yoruba film. plz dont mine those people with insultive statement and jagons they are jahili people.

I doubt it's the directors or producers that write the scripts or dictate the story-line . . .

u might wanna direct ur frustrations elsewhere

@OP

Movies are fiction, and if the way babalawos are being promoted is affecting your way of life/beliefs, then stop watching them.

BTW, i should warn you that you find lots of fetish ideologies in most foreign horror movies, and English nollywood movies too. So you better exclude them from your list also.

OP

You get choice nao!

Me i even think is better now than before, I mean compare to the days of aworo & fadeyi oloro films with those heavy incantations

Then most of the films only involve warfares of communal hunters and some witches and wizards.

What is Bee444 talking about, let me tell you, every movie in the world has got it's own culture, the American are often use to sex & gun. while the Chinese and india are good example of music and confuuuuuuu !!!! Can you compare Nigeria Eng movie & Igbo, Hausa & Yoruba, they are unique and real compare to the eng movie we do here in 9ja

the poster is right, me don tire to watch babalawo stuffs, cant we just atleast pretend that we a civilized for ones

GNS202:

What is Bee444 talking about,  let me tell you, every movie in the world has got it's own culture,  the American are often use to intimacy & gun. while the Chinese and india are good example of music and confuuuuuuu !!!! Can you compare Nigeria Eng movie & Igbo, Hausa & Yoruba,  they are unique and real compare to the eng movie we do here in 9ja

so u are proud to have babalawo stuffs as ur culture , abeg go sit down the dynamic nature of culture makes us civilized, we cant imprison ourselves in such sh.i.t and call it culture joo

bee444 you are left with choice of either watch the yoruba home video or settle for the recycle english home vide, the choice is yours

i'm pretty sure op has no problems with 90% of english nollywood speaking movies which are basially evangelist media - where all problem are solved by prayer sessions in church etal- and the emphasis on religion is beyond palpable

Movies showcase arts & culture, and if watching Yoruba movies enrages you as much as you proclaim, why don't you do yourself a favor by not watching them.

Yorùbá  movies are among the best vehicles of promoting Yorùbá Arts and Culture.
Can there be an Ifá without Babalawo?
Or can there be a Yorùbá tradition without Ifá?

with love from
YORÙBÁ DICTIONARY

by Pamela Smith Ph.D & Adebusola Onayemi FRCPC
http://www.yorubadictionary.com/

i think the poster's main grouse is the lack of diversity in the movies under discussion.

as in always the same theme and storyline.

LWKMD, Dis poster don vex. Abeg i wan go weewee 1st.

A typical Nigerian does not like reasoning to solve problems. Whenever there is a pressing problem,appealing to the power of superstition/magic _{it's all the same whether african/european/arabic/asian,etc} is what a typical Nigerian does. It is only common sense that if you as a producer/director of a movie wants to sell to the public,you flow with the public.

Orikinla:

Yorùbá  movies are among the best vehicles of promoting[b] Yorùbá[/b] Arts and Culture.
Can there be an Ifá without Babalawo?
Or can there be a Yorùbá tradition without Ifá?

with love from
YORÙBÁ DICTIONARY

by Pamela Smith Ph.D & Adebusola Onayemi FRCPC
http://www.yorubadictionary.com/

Mere looking at your name, and the way you decorate your ifa and Yoruba with your mark clearly tells the kind of person you are.

If i'm not mistaken, you belong to the deities!

^^^

jjc yarning op. not everyone is close minded


don't get our resident writer riled - he'll strat by correcting your 'mistaking'

I made a post about this a long while ago but i cant find it out right now.

True talk Op, a bunch of these Yoruba Movies promote alot of JUJU. I really detest alot of them and look at the way AIT even flash some of the previews of these JUJU films like they are the best that has ever come out of Nigeria. rubbish!

Krayola:

I doubt it's the directors or producers that write the scripts or dictate the story-line . . .  

u might wanna direct your frustrations elsewhere

Producers own and finance movies my dear. They don't have to write the script but can alter them. Some producers even go on to direct same movie. Producers are to blame!