ArewaNorth:


But Kannywood is the first film industry in Nigeria. Movies were first shot in Northern Nigeria before the creation of Nollywood or any Southern film industry.

That isn't kannywood.

leksite120:
Nollywood is not Igbo. Let me tell you a bitter truth. A standard movie produced in Yoruba would earn more audience than another standard one produced in Igbo. Yoruba owns Nollywood, Yoruba makes it fruitful , we make it 'tussh' and honourable and we have the audience to make any movie sells faster, so we own Nollywood

You people have come again. In the 90s and early 2000s you guys mocked the igbo dominated nollywood for putting out substandard movies, but guess what? Those same movies were celebrated across Africa. We had stars from all tribes like Omotola, Ini edo, Jim iyke, Desmond Eliot etc.
Today the yorubas have invested more on cinematography which is good but trying to mock the Asaba industry that gave us a niche is what I don't agree. How many of this good quality movies make wave in Africa?
The only mistake I think the Asaba/Enugu film makers made was calling themselves Nollywood. A Sallywood or so would have give authenticity to them. Now after all the labour you guys benefiting from their foundation now mock them openly.
That's how you guys mocked Genevieve on her first nigerian movie on netflix, but today every Tom, dick and Harry have theirs.
The problem with us Nigerians is that we don't honour the labour of our heroes past.

theTranscriber:
I repeat

Only old asabawood propagate Igwe stuff

New movies don't do such

Even though people like me are annoyed by their obsession with the Igweship stuff, your claim is pure fact denial. Asaba is a new location for movies campared to Enugu and Lagos, there is nothing old in that vibrant nollywood hub, yet they produce epic daily and other movies as well. Visit youtube and type latest nollywood movie and you'll be shocked.

AlexBells:

Okay I don hear, cause I have no such strength to engage you, maybe I wait till I see a Nollywood movie talking about Oba or Alafin, who is even talking about who dominates, I'm asking whose culture is Nollywood portraying if not Igbo culture and life in Nigerian city, even Funke Akindele's Jennifer's dairy was it not a regular city trend, which nollywood movie promote yoruba culture lol,

Actually, they are alot..they just speak yoruba n end up not leaving southwest

Chuksaluta:


You people have come again. In the 90s and early 2000s you guys mocked the igbo dominated nollywood for putting out substandard movies, but guess what? Those same movies were celebrated across Africa. We had stars from all tribes like Omotola, Ini edo, Jim iyke, Desmond Eliot etc.
Today the yorubas have invested more on cinematography which is good but trying to mock the Asaba industry that gave us a niche is what I don't agree. How many of this good quality movies make wave in Africa?
The only mistake I think the Asaba/Enugu film makers made was calling themselves Nollywood. A Sallywood or so would have give authenticity to them. Now after all the labour you guys benefiting from their foundation now mock them openly.
That's how you guys mocked Genevieve on her first nigerian movie on netflix, but today every Tom, dick and Harry have theirs.
The problem with us Nigerians is that we don't honour the labour of our heroes past.

Movie making is not about budget, it is about creativity. A poor storyteller has no bussiness in the movie industry. No matter how you invest, if the story is uninteresting, then the project is already a foundational disaster. This is why yorubas are investing a lot but don't excel in the inustry as they should.

Another dumb and ignorant thread on NL.Another dumb and ignorant thread on NL....

agadez007:
I remember when they didn’t want to associate with Nollywood they said it was poorly made and instead they called themselves “Yoruba movie” and Hausa “kannywood”
Now they all want to claim Nollywood because it is getting recognition worldwide in Africa and among the black diaspora
If you probably asked the South African which Nigerian actors he knows,it would be Igbo actors like mr ibu,osofia,osita iheme,Genevieve nnaji etc

as I said
2010 Nollywood

That's not present Nollywood
All highest grossing movies in Nigeria today are Yoruba dominated

You can kill yourself

Armaggedon:
Even though people like me are annoyed by their obsession with the Igweship stuff, your claim is pure fact denial. Asaba is a new location for movies campared to Enugu and Lagos, there is nothing old in that vibrant nollywood hub, yet they produce epic daily and other movies as well. Visit youtube and type latest nollywood movie and you'll be shocked.

you call those YouTube ad ridden trash movies?

Well I dont

Armaggedon:
That isn't kannywood.

Transcriber:
that's a lie
The first movies in Nigeria was made in the south

Google it and stop being a typical northern illiterate

The Hausa language cinema slowly evolved from the productions of RTV Kaduna and Radio Kaduna in the 1960s. Veterans like Dalhatu Bawa and Kasimu Yero pioneered drama productions that became popular with the Northern audience.

In the 70's and 80's, Usman Baba Pategi and Mamman Ladan introduced the Hausa Comedy to the Northern audience.

1990s: Bollywood influence

The 1990s saw a dramatic change in the Hausa language cinema, eager to attract more Hausa audience who find Bollywood movies more attractive, Kannywood; a cinematic synthesis of Indian and Hausa culture evolved and became extremely popular. Turmin Danya ("The Draw", 1990, is usually cited as the first commercially successful Kannywood film. It was quickly followed by others like Gimbiya Fatima In Da So Da Kauna, Munkar, Badakala and Kiyarda Da Ni. New actors like Ibrahim Mandawari and Hauwa Ali Dodo became popular and set the stage for the emergence of super-star like female actresses later on.

2000s Kannywood

By 2012, over 2000 film companies were registered with the Kano State Filmmakers Association.

A local censoring committee created by Kanywood Producers and Marketers was converted into a board and named Kano State Censorship Board in 2001 by Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. Mr. Dahiru Beli was appointed the first Executive Secretary of the board.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa-language_cinema


NOLLYWOOD

On the other hand, Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject of several controversies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nollywood

leksite120:
Honestly, you're obviously not saying the truth or u don't know what you're saying. Firstly, either it's Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa movie, they're all called Nollywood. The ones you categorized as Igbo inclined is the Igbo version of Nollywood.

Yoruba dominate Nollywood. Infact, they speak Yoruba in English Nollywood than any other language, even the Igbos in the movies try to feel among by speaking Yoruba or have you seen any Yoruba actor forcing himself to speak Igbo? Don't you know that the fact that Nollywood is centralized around Lagos boost the Yoruba chance of dominating it? Likewise the music industry and other industries too.
Standard Nollywood movies that are produced in Lagos are Yoruba inclined not the Asaba ones.

Go check Nollywood cinema movies , most of them are more Yoruba inclined filled mostly with Yoruba actors. Do you know Kunle Afolayan? He's the most successful director that directs top notch and fantastic movies that are internationally-recognized and most of those movies display Yoruba culture.

If you doubt me, go and check Netflix and do survey of all the movies there only if you'll be sincere with your outcome.

Yorubawood is struggling to dominate Nollywood and discredit the Igbos after the Igbos have built the movie industry with their money, sweat and blood over the years.
Nollywood will continue to be known by its Igbo nuances and culture.
Go to African magic epic, they are showing a nollywood movie with Igbo flavour as usual and it showing all over the world. Igbos built NOLLYWOOD. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.

Transcriber:
as I said
2010 Nollywood

That's not present Nollywood
All highest grossing movies in Nigeria today are Yoruba dominated

You can kill yourself

that’s the nollywood many Africans fell in love with

The Pete edochie,mr ibu,patience ozokwor etc
Don’t compare them with these days Tyler perry copy copying they doing these days
We know it’s hard for you guys to accept that the south easterners played a big role in selling Nollywood to the world

you can only decieve yourself Present Nollywood is Yoruba dominatedMaybe you're talking 2010 Nollywoodyou can only decieve yourself Present Nollywood is Yoruba dominatedMaybe you're talking 2010 Nollywood...

Chuksaluta:


You people have come again. In the 90s and early 2000s you guys mocked the igbo dominated nollywood for putting out substandard movies, but guess what? Those same movies were celebrated across Africa. We had stars from all tribes like Omotola, Ini edo, Jim iyke, Desmond Eliot etc.
Today the yorubas have invested more on cinematography which is good but trying to mock the Asaba industry that gave us a niche is what I don't agree. How many of this good quality movies make wave in Africa?
The only mistake I think the Asaba/Enugu film makers made was calling themselves Nollywood. A Sallywood or so would have give authenticity to them. Now after all the labour you guys benefiting from their foundation now mock them openly.
That's how you guys mocked Genevieve on her first nigerian movie on netflix, but today every Tom, dick and Harry have theirs.
The problem with us Nigerians is that we don't honour the labour of our heroes past.

I see Igbo Nollywood actors and actresses as the most stupid set of People in this life for subscribing to be part of AMVA awards where their worth as actors are humiliated by the organisers who just want to elevate their unknown Yoruba actors over them.

Till date many of them don't know that the movie awards of Nigeria was designed for one purpose and that purpose is to bring Igbo actors and Actresses down.

Until they design their own awards, they are all fóóls.

LMAO


Igbos made Nollywood!

I can remember the days of Ahanna, Rattlesnake,Nneka the pretty serpent, Blood sisters,world Apart

That was when Nollywood held it's viewers to a still and gained recognition worldwide
Now all we see it's the Yorubas trying to remake this olden movies, trying to Change the storylines and mediocre movies that only has to do with showings off lekki estates
Nothing more nothing less!!

Like the other poster Said, I blame Igbo producers for Changing location from Enugu to Lagos and letting every dick,Tom and Harry to self-acclaim themselves actors and actresses


Nansins

zhike:

Yes, some of the movies have good story line

Don't mind the guy his response is born out of hate for the industrious southerners especially Igbos in the Nollyword. True I don't watch all of them but some do have good story line and reflect current issues in our society. For instance they will tell u is full of rituals, but many Yahoo boys in Nigeria are into rituals. So it's a reflection of society

leksite120:
But first, do you accept that most movies produced in Lagos are Yoruba inclined as opposed what you said?
Also, you cannot tell me that Bollywood is bigger than Hollywood. American movies travel far and wide all over the world than Bollywood even with their population.
What's the essence of making substandard movies and classifying them as movies. How many people watch Asaba movies. Even at that, Yoruba Nollywood too produces tonnes of movies.

Stop ur rubbish argument is just like arguing that the igbos dorminate naija music not that there are no Igbo musicians, but we know Yorubas have more trending musicians. So be humble for once you can't lead in all front.

God1stson:

Stop ur rubbish argument is just like arguing that the igbos dorminate naija music not that there are no Igbo musicians, but we know Yorubas have more trending musicians. So be humble for once you can't lead in all front.

shut up, if you say you dominated like 20yrs ago, I won't argue. But right now, Yoruba have taken over

ArewaNorth:


But Kannywood is the first film industry in Nigeria. Movies were first shot in Northern Nigeria before the creation of Nollywood or any Southern film industry.

Maybe that's true, but this has no bearing on my response. I explained the reason they aren't well represented in the industry today could be because of their religious belief (as was shared by them on the front page). Whether the industry started in the North wouldn't change that theory cause Nigerians had no say in what happened in the country before 1960. The films made in the North then (just a couple of them actually) featured more of white people and pushed thier own narratives. The North was chosen cause of the scenery and the landscape. The films didn't even have the linguistic characteristics of today's Kannywood, a predominantly Hausa movie industry.

There's a difference between Nigeria and British Nigeria. The British made films anywhere they wanted to with little to no regards to culture and religion and thus the supposed birth of our movie industry in the North. Today, they have the right to promote only what appeals to them.

This is not a debate or where the industry started (I couldn't care less). This is a question of why they aren't well represented in the industry today. I didn't manufacture the reason I gave, it was shares by Muslims on a front thread where they clearly stated that watching movies isn't good. So if you need to challenge something, it is that thread, not me.

zhike:

Yes, some of the movies have good story line

lots of them actually have good story line, it's just the interpretation sometimes. And sometimes Nigerians feel Nollywood movies are inferior that's why you see them make silly comments about Nollywood movies. In the 90s and early 2000s Nigerian music were not celebrated by Nigerians, they mostly prefer listening to foreign music.

They believe by doing so they would be trendy or something along that line. That is the same feeling they have Nollywood movies today. Soon, Nollywood movies would begin to get appreciated the way Nigerian music is.

Nigerians sabi bad belle their own sometimes. This also applies to products made in Nigeria. Even though lots of these products are of great quality, Nigerians would term the products 'Aba made' just do they could feel better buying foreign made or imported products.

ArewaNorth:




The Hausa language cinema slowly evolved from the productions of RTV Kaduna and Radio Kaduna in the 1960s. Veterans like Dalhatu Bawa and Kasimu Yero pioneered drama productions that became popular with the Northern audience.

In the 70's and 80's, Usman Baba Pategi and Mamman Ladan introduced the Hausa Comedy to the Northern audience.

1990s: Bollywood influence

The 1990s saw a dramatic change in the Hausa language cinema, eager to attract more Hausa audience who find Bollywood movies more attractive, Kannywood; a cinematic synthesis of Indian and Hausa culture evolved and became extremely popular. Turmin Danya ("The Draw", 1990, is usually cited as the first commercially successful Kannywood film. It was quickly followed by others like Gimbiya Fatima In Da So Da Kauna, Munkar, Badakala and Kiyarda Da Ni. New actors like Ibrahim Mandawari and Hauwa Ali Dodo became popular and set the stage for the emergence of super-star like female actresses later on.

2000s Kannywood

By 2012, over 2000 film companies were registered with the Kano State Filmmakers Association.

A local censoring committee created by Kanywood Producers and Marketers was converted into a board and named Kano State Censorship Board in 2001 by Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. Mr. Dahiru Beli was appointed the first Executive Secretary of the board.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa-language_cinema


NOLLYWOOD

On the other hand, Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject of several controversies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nollywood

lol
Go and read on Ogunde

Transcriber:
you call those YouTube ad ridden trash movies?

Well I dont

most so called cinema movies are also on youtube. and most times traditional nollywood movies have more views than them.

Nigeria have two movie industry
Kannywood and NOLLYWOOD
Kannywood is basically Muslim and Hausa movie industry

NOLLYWOOD include
1. NOLLYWOOD Yoruba
2. Nollywood English
3. Nollywood Igbo

3 distinct movie industry altogether

Talking of success
Nollywood English is most popular, in like 2010 it was more of igbos (era of aki and paw paw, Sam loko efe, Mr Ibu) with few Yoruba but within the space of 10 years Yoruba have dominate NOLLYWOOD English and now standard

Best Directors are Yoruba
Highest rated movies are directed and produced by Yorubas
More than 55% actors and actresses are Yoruba

From Omo ghetto
Chief daddy
King of thieves
Wedding party
Sugar rush
Prophetess
Fate of alakade
My village people
Jennifer's diary
The list is endless

Click the link to see the highest grossing Nigerian films

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

That's for NOLLYWOOD English

Now we all know NOLLYWOOD Yoruba is more popular and more successful than Nollywood Igbo, in fact the actors and actresses in Yoruba movies are far more successful than those in indigenous Igbo movies

If you argue this you are only fighting the truth
Peace

etrange:
I just saw an Islamic "ruling on watching films" on the front page this morning. And according to that ruling, it is wrong to watch films cause the contents are lies and they normally play music in the background. It makes sense why they might not be well represented in such an industry.

What about the movies from Hausa nolly? Are they all christians?

booblacain:
I guess the reason is because most Nigerian movies seen by foreigners are made by South easterners who are predominantly Christians.

Movies made by South Westerners I would believe have more muslims in their casts, but their films are not as popularly watched out there compared to their South Eastern counterpart.

Hausa movies that have mainly Muslime casts rarely even make their way out of the shores of Nigeria, maybe to Northern Africa but definitely not to Southern Africa.

Those south Africans are just looking for trouble. DStv is indigenous to them and there's African magic Hausa.

They might not take note of the African magic Hausa

Nigeria have two movie industry
Kannywood and NOLLYWOOD
Kannywood is basically Muslim and Hausa movie industry

NOLLYWOOD include
1. NOLLYWOOD Yoruba
2. Nollywood English
3. Nollywood Igbo

3 distinct movie industry altogether

Talking of success
Nollywood English is most popular, in like 2010 it was more of igbos (era of aki and paw paw, Sam loko efe, Mr Ibu) with few Yoruba but within the space of 10 years Yoruba have dominate NOLLYWOOD English and now standard

Best Directors are Yoruba
Highest rated movies are directed and produced by Yorubas
More than 55% actors and actresses are Yoruba

From Omo ghetto
Chief daddy
King of thieves
Wedding party
Sugar rush
Prophetess
Fate of alakade
My village people
Jennifer's diary
The list is endless

Click the link to see the highest grossing Nigerian films

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

That's for NOLLYWOOD English

Now we all know NOLLYWOOD Yoruba is more popular and more successful than Nollywood Igbo, in fact the actors and actresses in Yoruba movies are far more successful than those in indigenous Igbo movies

If you argue this you are only fighting the truth
Peace

ForumNL:
Nigeria have two movie industry
Kannywood and NOLLYWOOD
Kannywood is basically Muslim and Hausa movie industry

NOLLYWOOD include
1. NOLLYWOOD Yoruba
2. Nollywood English
3. Nollywood Igbo

3 distinct movie industry altogether

Talking of success
Nollywood English is most popular, in like 2010 it was more of igbos (era of aki and paw paw, Sam loko efe, Mr Ibu) with few Yoruba but within the space of 10 years Yoruba have dominate NOLLYWOOD English and now standard

Best Directors are Yoruba
Highest rated movies are directed and produced by Yorubas
More than 55% actors and actresses are Yoruba

From Omo ghetto
Chief daddy
King of thieves
Wedding party
Sugar rush
Prophetess
Fate of alakade
My village people
Jennifer's diary
The list is endless

Click the link to see the highest grossing Nigerian films

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

That's for NOLLYWOOD English

Now we all know NOLLYWOOD Yoruba is more popular and more successful than Nollywood Igbo, in fact the actors and actresses in Yoruba movies are far more successful than those in indigenous Igbo movies

If you argue this you are only fighting the truth
Peace

Thanks for the clarification, in South Africa we only know Nollywood English.

Maybe Kannywood is Known in Saudi Arabia

Totilopussylick:


I think this is just to entertain you

In this section?

BeardedMeat:
Those south Africans are just looking for trouble. DStv is indigenous to them and there's African magic Hausa.

My friend note that Dstv is a business and they know their customers. There is no way a channel called Africa magic hausa can be shown in South Africa.

BeardedMeat:
Those south Africans are just looking for trouble. DStv is indigenous to them and there's African magic Hausa.

Just to teach you, channels that you see on Nigerian dstv is not the channels they see on South African dstv.

Most South Africans do not know that there is language called Hausa.

Most South Africans do not know that there is black people who are Muslims.

There is no branch of movie industry in Nigeria or elsewhere known as "nollywood yoruba"
Although there has been attempts to have that niche but it has often failed mainly because unlike kannywood, the proponents want to make a name by building on the foundation laid by the booming nollywood, in an exoparasite fashion. For instance, kannywood movie makers have their own association, nollywood have Actors guild of Nigeria while Western actors had Association of theartre arts practitioners of Nigeria (ATAPN) . But ATAPN seems to have collapsed just like the 'yoruwood' wood project as no one hears about them.

There is no clear distinction between regular english movies and cinema movies as most actors and producers in the smaller cinema sector also do regular nollywood movies.

There is also no clear distinction between English movies and Igbo language movies since they are done by the same people.

The only clear distinctions are:
1) Kannywood by the Northerners

2) Yoruba language movies by the yorubas

3) Nollywood by Igbos done in English and Igbo language as well in the cinemas, accommodating some modern 'lekki elements' of the Yorubas

It is the third one that is known by foreigners as the Nigerian movie industry.

zhike:


Just to teach you, channels that you see on Nigerian dstv is not the channels they see on South African dstv.

Most South Africans do not know that there is language called Hausa.

Most South Africans do not know that there is black people who are Muslims.

You may be right or not. After all we receive their own stations here in Nigeria.