kayfra:


What is CONVID-19?

justified007:
i laugh when the igbos start making noise about their states .



sentiments aside, theres nothing special in the SE. The roads are terrible , lack of portable water and the indigens are very hostile and unfriendly.



the east is the perfect definition of a banana republic

kayfra:


[s]Your gap in knowledge is overwhelming to me. I'd have to give you a full lecture about the topic and you'll still be ignorant at the end of the day. So it's not worth my while. I have other Igbos to annoy [/s]

Ikpuchinonye19:
you have ended up saying nothing as usual

kayfra:


Yorubas dominate Nollywood by every metric. Those are the facts and we pioneered the movie making and theatre industries in the country. The only thing is the Igbos started the cheap movie making industry by producing straight to cheap CDs

Here is a list of successful Nollywood movies. Afonjas are dominant. It's not even competitive

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Nigerian_films#

kayfra:


Oya. Read and say Thank You

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria

kayfra:


Oya. Read and say Thank You

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria

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You guys no go kill person, please post the estate, how can reasonabl person compare a state with international with a state with local railway line how can you say Ibadan new railway line will give Enugu with international and local airports advantage, this is not the first railway line in Oyo, is it because it is new.

Ikpuchinonye19:
When world renowned African film maker Sembene Ousmane, told a group of American scholars who asked him about Nollywood that ‘Nigerians had found a way to reach the African audience and that is great accomplishment’, it was considered a ground shaking, epoch making compliment. Considering that African Film makers had hitherto dismissed Nollywood as a Mickey Mouse industry, Sembene’s statement that Nollywood had found the way for the liberation of our people’s cultural, material, economic and creative sensibilities through storytelling was a victory for Nollywood. Africa through Nollywood has finally found a way of telling our own stories our own way. This is the Nollywood we celebrate today.

Nollywood’s arrival in 1992 with Kenneth Nnebue’s Living in Bondage signified a change on the Nigerian filmmaking scene. With video technology, Nollywood brought African filmmaking from the sidelines of global filmmaking into the centre. Finally, an audience that had long yearned for a movie culture they could call their own, found a place they could call home. Withno formal structure, no government aid, no backing from financial institutions, no grants from donor agencies, and solely dependent on informal marketers who were largely importers of electronic appliances, what is today a global phenomenon took off. In merely 20 years, Nollywood has done more for this country than any other art form; it has placed our dear nation on a pedestal that has spiked interest the world over. No other African country can boast of any indigenous artistic expression that equals Nollywood. Its stars are the cynosure of all eyes at international events; they are worthy brand ambassadors for some of the biggest brands in the world; Nollywood has provided employment for and radically changed the lives of thousands of Nigerians; it is the subject of seminars, conferences, workshops and many other creative and intellectual engagements. The Federal government’s NEEDS document recognised Nollywood as far back as 2005. The recent SURE-P document did the same. As I’m sure we all know, Mr. President instituted a $200m fund for the entertainment industry on the strength and popularity of Nollywood. Many scholars and researchers have made a name simply by researching and writing about Nollywood. Documentaries have been made by many filmmakers from across the globe, all in an attempt to understand the peculiarities on what has become the most industrious indigenous filmmaking tradition out of Africa and the black Diaspora.UNESCO even named Nollywood as the 2nd largest Film industry after Hollywood and before Bollywood

http://momo.com.ng/interviews/features/africans-tell-african-stories-through-nollywood-amaka-igwe/

Jasparrow1:
I don't want to talk much.

kayfra:


Garbage post

Jasparrow1:
I know it will be garbage post. Your brothers knew Nollywood belongs to Igbos.



Nollywood’s bawdy humor — or fright or fantasy — appeals to a public seeking escape from depressing living conditions. The industry itself was born out of economic desperation during the early 1990s, a period of military dictatorship, low prices for Nigeria’s oil and Western-mandated “structural adjustment” of its economy. Actors and cameramen were out of work because of budget cuts at the national television station. Movie theaters were closed because no one wanted to venture into the dangerous streets at night. According to legend, the first Nollywood movie was made by a small-time electronics trader named Kenneth Nnebue, who, stuck with a large shipment of blank videotapes, decided to unload them by making a movie about a man who sells his soul for wealth. That movie, “Living in Bondage,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies and established Nollywood’s archetypal plot elements: martial discord, greed, a conflict between Christianity and juju, as the occult is called in West Africa. From these accidental origins, a cultural phenomenon emerged.

Other merchants, overwhelmingly members of Nnebue’s ethnic group, the Igbo, followed him into business. They literally made things up as they went, shooting movies in just a few days, based on vague scenarios instead of scripts. Directors approximated tracking shots by pushing their cameramen around in wheelchairs. Quality was shaky, but the buying public didn’t care. Between 1994 and 2005, production in Nigeria went from a handful of feature movies a year to more than 2,500.

“We watch these Africa films like ‘Blood Diamond’ and ‘The Last King of Scotland’ — they’re always from the perspective of the Europeans,” says Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, who has directed more than 160 features. He was the subject of a documentary called “Nollywood Babylon,” which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, and he told me that when he went to the festival, he was shocked to discover that some American directors had been working for years to make just one movie.

Kenneth Nnebue quit Nollywood a few years ago, retiring to his village to devote his life to preaching the Bible. But the industry he established remains tightly controlled by the same group of Igbo businessmen, an insular guild sometimes called the Alaba cartel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/nollywood-movies.html?pagewanted=all

kayfra:


You are stuck in 1992. Get someone to read the history of Nogerian cinema before 1992 into your ears. Maybe it'll stick

derealj:


When Pete Edochie was on Things fall apart in the 70s/80s and Chika Okpala was in the Masquerade, Yorubawood was non-existent.

igboarenice:

you are a pathetic fraud even the link you posted talk about kunle afolayan all through

kayfra:


Ogunde had been producing movies since the 60s and there were people before him in the 20s to 50s. Get a clue

If you want to talk about cheap junk production in the 90s. I'll give it to the Alaba crew. But Yorubas started this business over a century ago

Ikpuchinonye19:
Olu Jaobs,Ini Edo,Omotola,Desmond Elliot,van Vicker ,Segun Arinze and many others became household names because of Nollywood founded,financed and marketed solely by Igbos at the initial stages

derealj:

Lol why stop at a century, 5 centuries ago would have been a bigger lie. Omo you can lie.

kayfra:


"Film as a medium first arrived to Nigeria in the late 19th century, in the form of peephole viewing of motion picture devices. These were soon replaced in early 20th century with improved motion picture exhibition devices, with the first set of films screened at the Glover Memorial Hall in Lagos from 12 to 22 August 1903.The earliest feature film made in Nigeria is 1926's Palaver produced by Geoffrey Barkas; the film was also the first film ever to feature Nigerian actors in a speaking role."


Orlando Martins is one of the first Nigerian actors in modern times.

He was making waves in London in the 1920s as an actor and also entered the Nigerian movie scene.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Martins


Yorubas are not your mates by any stretch of your imagination. You should consider yourself fortunate to share a country with the Great Ethnic Nation
Igi imu jina si ese

1920s to 2020 is 100 years. A century

kayfra:


"Film as a medium first arrived to Nigeria in the late 19th century, in the form of peephole viewing of motion picture devices. These were soon replaced in early 20th century with improved motion picture exhibition devices, with the first set of films screened at the Glover Memorial Hall in Lagos from 12 to 22 August 1903.The earliest feature film made in Nigeria is 1926's Palaver produced by Geoffrey Barkas; the film was also the first film ever to feature Nigerian actors in a speaking role."


Orlando Martins is one of the first Nigerian actors in modern times.

He was making waves in London in the 1920s as an actor and also entered the Nigerian movie scene.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Martins


Yorubas are not your mates by any stretch of your imagination. You should consider yourself fortunate to share a country with the Great Ethnic Nation
Igi imu jina si ese

1920s to 2020 is 100 years. A century

Jasparrow1:
Which of the Yoruba movies are more popular than Igbo movies. Do you even have a movie industry

wirinet:

Yorubas pioneered the movie industry. When Hubert Ogunde was making films in the early 70s most Nollywood actors and producers were not born yet.

Jasparrow1:
Abegi, make person here word with this una pioneer rubbish. Nollywood belongs to the Igbos. Period!!

kayfra:


Oya. Read and say Thank You

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria

Ikpuchinonye19:
When world renowned African film maker Sembene Ousmane, told a group of American scholars who asked him about Nollywood that ‘Nigerians had found a way to reach the African audience and that is great accomplishment’, it was considered a ground shaking, epoch making compliment. Considering that African Film makers had hitherto dismissed Nollywood as a Mickey Mouse industry, Sembene’s statement that Nollywood had found the way for the liberation of our people’s cultural, material, economic and creative sensibilities through storytelling was a victory for Nollywood. Africa through Nollywood has finally found a way of telling our own stories our own way. This is the Nollywood we celebrate today.

Nollywood’s arrival in 1992 with Kenneth Nnebue’s Living in Bondage signified a change on the Nigerian filmmaking scene. With video technology, Nollywood brought African filmmaking from the sidelines of global filmmaking into the centre. Finally, an audience that had long yearned for a movie culture they could call their own, found a place they could call home. Withno formal structure, no government aid, no backing from financial institutions, no grants from donor agencies, and solely dependent on informal marketers who were largely importers of electronic appliances, what is today a global phenomenon took off. In merely 20 years, Nollywood has done more for this country than any other art form; it has placed our dear nation on a pedestal that has spiked interest the world over. No other African country can boast of any indigenous artistic expression that equals Nollywood. Its stars are the cynosure of all eyes at international events; they are worthy brand ambassadors for some of the biggest brands in the world; Nollywood has provided employment for and radically changed the lives of thousands of Nigerians; it is the subject of seminars, conferences, workshops and many other creative and intellectual engagements. The Federal government’s NEEDS document recognised Nollywood as far back as 2005. The recent SURE-P document did the same. As I’m sure we all know, Mr. President instituted a $200m fund for the entertainment industry on the strength and popularity of Nollywood. Many scholars and researchers have made a name simply by researching and writing about Nollywood. Documentaries have been made by many filmmakers from across the globe, all in an attempt to understand the peculiarities on what has become the most industrious indigenous filmmaking tradition out of Africa and the black Diaspora.UNESCO even named Nollywood as the 2nd largest Film industry after Hollywood and before Bollywood

http://momo.com.ng/interviews/features/africans-tell-african-stories-through-nollywood-amaka-igwe/

wirinet:

Yorubas pioneered the movie industry. When Hubert Ogunde was making films in the early 70s most Nollywood actors and producers were not born yet.

Eastlink:
Yoruba didn't pioneer film making in Nigeria. The British actually began filming documentaries before independence. And yes there were indigenous documentaries that time but Government had control over production and distribution of films.

What Hubert Ogunde produced was his threatre plays which he recorded in celluloid as a means to sell to wider audience. There were so many theatre production as of them and many weren't filmed as Ogunde’s.
You Yoruba’s keep saying Ogunde was the pioneer of filming in Nigeria and yet the government records don't agree with you. As long as the government agrees on public stations we're allowed to produced film.

The so-called Ogunde films are recorded theatre production. What is holding you from showing Nigerians the so-called film produced by Ogunde? You know you can't because it will expose you guys as fraud. Wikipedia rewriting won't save you guys.

In the past we had series such as Masquerade by NTA Enugu and Village Headmaster by NTA ibadan. but despite that it didn't start the movie industry. What NTA did was to revolutionized filming in Nigeria.
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Hiwever, thre real first movie with actual locations and later sold on tape to Nigerians was ’Things fall apart’ which was a joint venture by the BBC and NTA. The Nigerian movie storyline today had it's fitting from that production.

It was through this wonderful production team that the likes if Amaka Igwe etc emerge from to kickstart the Nigerian movie i-started. And with the assistance of Babangida who promulgated the liberation decree, the stage was set for private film and movie production and Living in bondage was birthed in 1992!

kayfra:


You must be silly. People watched Jaiyesimi, Moshebolatan, Aiye, Taxi Driver etc etc in cinemas and on video tapes after cinema release. And then we had Ade Love Afolayan and his movies (his kids carry his legacy)

Even the so called cheap home videos the Igbos copied was popularized by Wale Adenuga of Ikebe Super fame after his cinema release of Papa Ajasco.

The very first home video was Evil Encounter made by Jimi Odumosu in 1980 and Igbo traders pirated the hell out of the movie in Alaba.


Yorubas are really not your mates. We just happen to share countries. We are pioneers in Africa and light years ahead in almost everything

Eastlink:
Any private individual producing films before 1991 was as good as being sent to the firing squad. Those who study mass communications know that laws only allowed Government stations to air films. It was after the liberalization decree by Babangida in 1991 that private ownership of production and distribution of broadcast and video content was allowed. The NFVCB was mandated to control film production same year.

Dokpesi’s Raypower/AIT became the first private station to be given licence and the following year year Living in Bondage became the private movie to be produced. All are in government archive.

The movie we had in the past that was aired in Pen Cinema etc were Hollywood and Indian movies. As a matter of fact many were smuggled into the country. No Cinema showed Nigerian movie, it was straight imprisonment as of then. You guys should stop deceiving the public.

Eastlink:
Any private individual producing films before 1991 was as good as being sent to the firing squad. Those who study mass communications know that laws only allowed Government stations to air films. It was after the liberalization decree by Babangida in 1991 that private ownership of production and distribution of broadcast and video content was allowed. The NFVCB was mandated to control film production same year.

Dokpesi’s Raypower/AIT became the first private station to be given licence and the following year year Living in Bondage became the private movie to be produced. All are in government archive.

The movie we had in the past that was aired in Pen Cinema etc were Hollywood and Indian movies. As a matter of fact many were smuggled into the country. No Cinema showed Nigerian movie, it was straight imprisonment as of then. You guys should stop deceiving the public.

Eastlink:
Yoruba didn't pioneer film making in Nigeria. The British actually began filming documentaries before independence. And yes there were indigenous documentaries that time but Government had control over production and distribution of films.

What Hubert Ogunde produced was his threatre plays which he recorded in celluloid as a means to sell to wider audience. There were so many theatre production as of them and many weren't filmed as Ogunde’s.
You Yoruba’s keep saying Ogunde was the pioneer of filming in Nigeria and yet the government records don't agree with you. As long as the government agrees, only government stations we're allowed to produced films and they were regulations to that effect.

The so-called Ogunde films are recorded theatre production. What is holding you from showing Nigerians the so-called film produced by Ogunde? You know you can't because it will expose you guys as fraud. Wikipedia rewriting won't save you guys.

In the past we had series such as Masquerade by NTA Enugu and Village Headmaster by NTA ibadan. but despite that it didn't start the movie industry. What NTA did was to revolutionized filming in Nigeria.
.
Hiwever, thre real first movie with actual locations and later sold on tape to Nigerians was ’Things fall apart’ which was a joint venture by the BBC and NTA. The Nigerian movie storyline today had it's fitting from that production.

It was through this wonderful production team that the likes if Amaka Igwe etc emerge from to kickstart the Nigerian movie i-started. And with the assistance of Babangida who promulgated the liberation decree, the stage was set for private film and movie production and Living in bondage was birthed in 1992!