LagosPrince:

Na Igbo get Nollywood

Yoruba get Nollywood yoruba since they couldn't break into the English version of Nollywood Epic

Nollywood sef don caste, we all watch Netflix movies now, it will have another 20yrs before we see a full Igbo movie on Netflix, just like it took over 20yrs to have Igbo movies on dstv

As if it wasn't Genevieve Nnaji"s Lionheart is the first Nollywood movie to go to Netflix and was about the most expensive. Dey play

Ola9ja23:
This people and their nonsense argument

We are proud of our Yoruba movies as it promotes our culture and heritage that's why you see many of them doing great on Netflix and attracting international attention. I can't remember any ibo movie on Netflix that gain attention as Yoruba language in Africa.

We don't need to brake into local English movie of IPOB 😂 the way we started our Afrobeat and Afromusic that's recognized internationally today is the way we want Yoruba movies from Africa to the world.

Yoruba is greater than Africa

igwebuike01:

These are not Nollywood. They are not recorded for commercial distribution till Igbos entered and changed the game

The first home video, EKUN was produced in 1988 by Alade Aromire of blessed memory

LagosPrince:

The same TV that you bought from Igbo business men abi?

Just dey play

from which year, first tribe to watch TV in west Africa are we the Yorubas, it too Igbo 50yrs after to watch TV, we are not mate

igwebuike01:

You people use Lagos influence to deceive yourselves. Do you know that first indegenous rap album was recorded in Enugu by Massai (onye kwulu oto) .this was many years before Dagrin. Also Mr. Raw and Sloow Dogg were hits in igbo rap before yoruba rap. But I have seen many yorubas laying claims to be pioneers of indegenous rap

if you know AY and lord of ajasa u will be saying this on Sunday

NewDea4:


Don't mind those miserable liars!

inferiority complex wan kill them

Interesting

porthouse7:
from which year, first tribe to watch TV in west Africa are we the Yorubas, it too Igbo 50yrs after to watch TV, we are not mate

You just sit in your tiny room to spew all sorts of lies to make yourself feel good

Continue

igwebuike01:

Read the interview. The interview said that the new technology of streaming platforms is helping yorubas catch up. Before then it used to be igbo controlled distributors and marketers. (Idumota Lagos, Iweka road Onitsha and pounds road Aba). You are just trying to catch up from long years of absolute Igbo domination by taking advantage of new streaming technology

cos ur Igbo people pirate our movies, now the can't do it again

I am recently believing that YORUBAS are envious people

Raskimonojendor:

Wait a minute. What year was Massai (onye kwulu oto) released?

I want to check something.

they don't know AY and Lords of ajasa

Nawa o see how APC have successfully divided us even further with tribalism and nairaland is a platform that keeps encouraging tribalism. Hmm

hmmmm

Adjovi:
Nawa o see how APC have successfully divided us even further with tribalism and nairaland is a platform that keeps encouraging tribalism. Hmm

Nairaland is the HQ.

Omoawoke2:


Una like to argue.

This is a fact not a call for debate. Yorubas started nollywood and commercialized it.
Igbos have moved from snatching lands to stealing glory

Chaiii!! Are you this miserable? So your worthless parents and ancestors sold their lands to marry and merry away their lives and now you re now a permanent tenant to the igbos on your own land. 😆 ... Can't you see how delusional and miserable you ve become? Eayahb!!!! You ve got no glory if an outsider can come conquer you on your own soil while you and your generations pay him and his children for life... So keep wailing till.you die... MISERABLE RAT

Elluppeee will start crying on this thread now

Irony1:


You are getting it all wrong.These tribalists keep getting the concept all wrong. Normal theatre productions yes it started with Yorubas. Even in the 60s most Nigerian motions picture were done by the whites based on some of Wole Soyinka's books and Chinua Achebe's books. But in terms of motion picture and the rapid commercialisation of Nigerian movies it started with Living in Bondage courtesy of Nek Video links. The man had to take people from NTA then to produce that movie. So the statement that Nollywood started with Yorubas is very misleading and false.

The Igbo raised in Yoruba land and Igbo raised in Igbo lands are not the same thing. The Igbo influenced by Yoruba's culture and doing it...can't refer to them fully Igbos or pioneers. There are several movies released before living in bondage. Mostly in Yorubas when Nobody in the entire south east haven't seen local movies then.
All the Juju, villages, witchcrafts, herbalists roles Yoruba did it firstly before Igbo started theirs.

Raskimonojendor:

This is another hardcore rap released by AY in 1999. Yorubas lead while others follow.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsIH9CrrE2Q?si=6xijJo-LH9cf5W07

thanks for this video bro, refreshing my memories

OGHENAOGIE:
meanwhile obi got 95 percent in Igboland while PDP APC couldn't see even 10 percent each yet u open ur gutter to tag others tribalists... U were expecting LP a small party to win ahead of PDP or APC if not delusion... Southwest PDP LP APC got good votes unlike south east that's one way traffic yet u pple call others tribalists when na Ina be tribalists...

I tire oooo. U don't even need to talk much, in reality they re very tribalistic.

jaxxy:


ok fine because there is no reason for yorubas and ignos attacking each other.

Eggxactly. That's why the scrotum of Taylor90 and LagosPrince should be removed and only given back to them to eat after repentance!

Padipadi:

Eggxactly. That's why the scrotum of Taylor90 and LagosPrince should be removed and only given back to them to eat after repentance!

😂 😆

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh. Is that the lie they gave you? You don't know nada. Nollywood is the name given to Nigerian indigenous films industry. That means indigenous films by Nigerians, produced by Nigerians and transmitted to private homes and shown at cinema.

While you were hyping Living in Bondage in the east, several decades before then had been Nigerian films that were block busters that you never knew because such technology which had gained ground in Yorubaland had not reached the East. Nobody in the whole Eastern Nigeria has even seen let alone watch TV until later.

Television started in Yorubaland at a time the rest of Nigeria and Africa had never seen or watched TV! While the Yoruba were producing films and other contents for TV, the technology has not even reached your side and other parts of Africa.

It's completely fraudulent to now attempt to insinuate Nollywood started when you started watching TV long years later. The Yoruba films being beamed on TV then started Nollywood. You should be grateful to those Yoruba pace setters of Nollywood.

You are a known noisemaker here...

Nigerian film making was nothing until Living in Bondage hit the market...

How many people apart from those reading from textbook knew Hubert Ogunde?

Go to any African country be it in Kenya or Tanzania or Uganda and sample the perception of people about Nigerian Nollywood and come back and cease noisemaking...

You guys need to rise above the pettiness of seeking validation by this futile competition with the Igbos...

Nollywood is over 60 percent Igbo content...

funmijoyb:

The Igbo raised in Yoruba land and Igbo raised in Igbo lands are not the same thing. Igbo influenced by Yoruba's culture they have seen on Yoruba lands and doing it...can't call them fully Igbos. There are several movies released before living in bondage. Mostly in Yorubas when Nobody in the entire south east have seen local movies then.

Okay can you do me a favor mention those movies and please do not mention those produced for NTA. And as you are mentioning them please mention data on how many million copies were sold, who the producers were and the marketers. See you keep missing the point here. In the 80s and early 90s you hardly go to the market to buy a Nigeria movie, I dare anyone to claim or lie, it was all American movies. No one imagined that you can enter market and buy or rent a Nigerian movie until living in Bondage. That was as a result of igbos that is when commercial motion picture that we know as Nollywood was born.

Dollar is now #65 per 1$ because this. Ponu people shaa.

007kjb:
I am recently believing that YORUBAS are envious people

It is really a shame...

diplomat058:


You're the one who is wrong and wrapped in tribalism.

Life evolves, hence the concept of evolution is applicable to almost every aspect of life, except birth and death, maybe. Nollywood means movies made in Nigeria, be it cinema, video cassettes, TV or Netflix; in Yorùbá, Hausa, English, French, etc. Nollywood, as an industry of many internal variants, has evolved over the years and stages of production. It is unwise and illogical to discard the early stages of growth and suddenly say Nollywood was birthed as a teenager, not as a baby. Lol

Dude you are dancing everywhere and avoiding making a point. Commercial motion picture business is Nollywood and not theatre. Get the memo. In the 80s and early 90s you can never go to the market to buy or rent Nigerian movies, it was always American movies, the trend changed when Living in Bondage came in, and it was igbos that started it. That is the crux of the matter so it is rather misleading for someone to say Nollywood which is commercial motion picture started with Yorubas that is a big lie.

Anitatunde:



Nairaland is the HQ.

It's just ugly to behold honestly

samz77:
u are an idiot. you are speaking ill of the most educated tribe in Nigeria ( the Yorubas)
. can you see the rubbish you ve just stated

Most educated murons you mean. Nonsense.. Tribe wey no get sense at all.. Others ve seen you all in your foolishness. So keep that fake slogan to yourself. Sophisticated mumu people

Everyone outside of the tribalistic yurobas knows Nollywood was put on the international map by igbo people. The nollywood everyone knows are the original igbo films shot back in the late 90s and 2000's. Igbos combine great acting, beautiful people, and a nice mix of english and igbo that allowed those outside of Nigeria to enjoy. The clips going viral on tiktok everyday are all from classic nollywood. Not yurobas can never give igbos their props for being pioneers. Its pathetic and reeks of jealousy.

igwebuike01:

Big lie. Nollywood is a name given to films recorded and mass produced in commercial quantity as home videos. Iweka road Onitsha is the birthplace of Nollywood.

Iweka Road , Onitsha and Pound Road Aba were the home places of Nigerian commercial home videos...

LagosPrince:

Una don from Nollywood to music now?

Always measuring dicks with the Igbos .

Inferiority complex

Where and where did you see "Igbo"?

Anitatunde:


Which one be “OUR” movies ?

How many you don act ?

wetin this one dey talk, our Yoruba movies