What's happening to Igbollywood?

By Agency Reporter

When Daar Communications launched its satellite communication, DaarSat, this year, many people applauded them for being first again. They were, after all, the first to go on DSTV.


Part of the excitement about DaarSat is that it offers more than 40 channels, among which are those dedicated to Nigerian films, popularly known as Nollywood.

A channel shows only films in which the language of communication is Yoruba, which have been nicknamed, Yorrywood.

Another of the DaarSat channels shows only Kannywood films, that is, films of the Hausa language, and that is about all they have as far as Nigerian languages and films are concerned.

One would have thought that films which language of communication is Igbo would have top the list given the fact that that ethnic group revolutionalised the Nigerian film industry in 1992 with the film, Living in Bondage, shot in Igbo language.

Well, the management of DaarSat said that could only come later as the number of films in Igbo language is very few, quite negligible and not enough to run a channel on.

Quite an irony for an ethnic group that revolutionised the Nigerian film industry.

Perhaps, that section of Nigeria is now going to take more seriously, the words of celebrated novelist, Chinua Achebe, who once warned that the language is endangered?

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/23/419.html

Yorrywood? LOLLLLLLLLL

You are a true son of Igboland and I will recommend you for any traditional appointment that will promote us. Nwannem ndewo,

I am not ibo

lol
Kosite did u read the post at all b4 your reply?
@Topic,well,it wont change anything.The producers sure knows the "wood" that sells best.