ElSudani:


Yoruba made movies before Ibos started recording VCDs.
The industry is called Nollywood not the format. It is like saying Hollywood or Bollywood started with videos cassettes or streaming.
If the movie industry in Nigeria is called Nollywood then Yoruba started it. This is based on facts and history.

Omoawoke2:


Stop lying to yourself,

The poorest people are igbos in the south

Check the facts below.
We don’t talk without facts

saintrow1:


The following are the basic factors of identifying eboes

hairiness
Alien head shape
Deep beer voice
Body and mouth odour

igwebuike01:

Cinema and TV no be Nollywood. How many times can we correct you? Nollywood is the commercial production of recorded home videos

foleskay:

Not celluloids. D first vhs film came out around 1982 or 86. That was six years earlier that the 1990 living in bondage

FreeStuffsNG:


Some people actually think that Nollywood started with 'Living In Bondage ' and 'Domitila'. Smh.

Aisha is even schooling them for free when they should be paying to recieve this kind of knowledge.

Everything about entertainment in Africa, from the first TV station to the first stadium etc, has its root in Ibadan, the heart of Yorubaland through the vision of our forebears. Thank you Aisha for the free education you are giving them.

Entertainment business is total package and it's bringing in billions into Nigeria through the Nigerian music, sports and film industry pioneered by the Yoruba and still owned by the Yoruba.

The chart bursting Nollywood films are produced in Yoruba but subtitled in English, Asake sings in Yoruba, all the Nigerian music Stars that performed at his UK show, including Tunde Baiyewu of Light House, are Nigerians and Yoruba with link to Nollywood. Most of those sound tracks in Yoruba films come from these Yoruba global Musicians.

Even Gospel musicians like Tope Alabi are connected to Nollywood while World Boxing Champion Anthony Olufemi Joshua, World Athletics record-holder Tobi Amusan, along with Odunlade Adekola, Olamide, Teni and others are Glo Ambassadors, Iya Rainbow, Lateef Adedimeji, Dele Odule from Nollywood as Airtel Ambassadors, with their faces all over local and international Nigerian entertainment contents sponsorship.

Yoruba started Nollywood when the rest of Nigeria and Africa had not even seen or watched a TV in their lives and the Yoruba still own Nollywood till date.

The Yoruba can teach others in Nigeria and Africa how they sustain this global feat and dominance of entertainment if others are humble enough to learn from the Yoruba. We are all Nigerians/Africans and we can learn from one another. Check my signature for free stuffs!
Nollywood is one of Africa’s most successful film industries and brings billions of dollars annually. Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian author who released “Things Fall Apart” in 1958, is credited with starting it all. He wanted to make films but had no idea how to make one. Instead, he authored “The Education Of A British-Protected Child,” which became his most famous work. The book speaks about how to establish a film company from scratch. He sent the book for publication abroad due to the political unrest in Nigeria, and it was never accepted. However, the book got published by Oxford University Press in 1975.

Putinofrussia:

lol
I bet you are intelligent or you can at least pretend to be.
Hollywood, Bollywood and others all over the world all started from cinemas then into videos and so on.

There is a reason the world wouldn't forget the inventors of most tools we use today like cars,phones etc.

In simple words,Yorubas invented Nollywood before you know what acting is all about..

igwebuike01:

So yoruba started acting? No. Yoruba started showing acting on TV. Igbo started recording acting as home videos. Nollywood is the commercial aspect which goes beyond acting. Igbo dominated marketing and distribution, the livewire of Nollywood

Acekidc4:
She is saying the Confirmed Truth!! Yoruba Lagba anytime anyday 🤗🤓

igwebuike01:

I'm talking contemporary hip hop. There are many Igbos "rappers" in the 90s

Battlepanda4:
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Raskimonojendor:

You are confused. Idris started rap his broken English rap also around 99/2000.

You are jumping around like an headless chicken.
1st you said indigenous, I gave you indigenous, now you have gone to broken English rap.

Rugged man is a baby that came much later with his American style copy type of rap. Even at that, da tribes were earlier than rugged man when it comes to American copy style of rap.

I feel I am discussing with a baby in the Nigerian hip hop arena

FreeStuffsNG:

The first television station in Nigeria and Africa, the Western Nigerian Government Broadcasting Corporation (WNTV) began broadcasting on 31 October 1959 in Ibadan. That's when Nigerian indigenous films a.k.a Nollywood started. It started in the West and later expanded to other regions of Nigeria

LagosPrince:

Says a drunkard 😂😆

HBB1:



Just admit you were caught capping!

🤣

igwebuike01:

You think there were no localized old skul igbo raps too. I remember my uncle playing songs where there were rapping about "nkwu ocha" ( palm wine) in the early 90s. I don't even know the name of the artists. Many such childhood old skul raps, you people take too much advantage of Lagos influence to claim a lot of things. Na that my uncle suppose come finish you. I'm talking about modern naija hip hop. Present generation of yorubas think that phyno is first igbo rapper just because others didn't move to Lagos that's my point. Not about your 18 century Lagos rap. Others also had their own at the same period

Babaken:
Who dey drag am with Una, una think say na everytime person dey get time dey argue for waiten no get head.

CSTRR:

Lol.

Go to the street , take a survey and say that again.

igwebuike01:

If you see the hit jam igbo rap playing inside Keke now eh. But you won't know because that are not Lagos based. Later you will use Lagos to claim first

CSTRR:
These people and tribalism.

No matter their level in society.

And yet they say igbos are the tribalistic ones.

That was how awolowo introduced tribalism into politics and it has continued till this day.

Renman:
Wow!!!

igwebuike01:

Yes you are right. Thats 6 years ahead of Da grin. I'm sure Yorubas know nothing about this east coast hit. Later they will use Lagos to claim first. Even the old skul Lagos rap of the 90s he is parading has earlier igbo equivalent they are not aware of

Efewestern:
FreeStuffsNG you need to understand the point igwebuike01 is making. There was a time the Igbos dominated and controlled the Nollywood mainstream. A huge percentage of movie distributors back then were Igbos.

With the decline in CD Cassette and introduction of more sophisticated means of movie distribution, the Yorubas started gradually seizing their pie of the cake. Flooded streaming platforms with their contents and are now telling their stories. This wouldn't have been possible if we were in 2006 when movies where distributed in Idumota and Upper iweaka by Igbo investors.

Should we discredit the efforts of the Igbos? No

Does this means the Yorubas didn't make contributions to the growth of Nollywood? No. Infact I watched a number of Yoruba movies in Warri in the 2000's, but majority of movies distributed then were done by Igbos.

We can appreciate Yorubas current dominance in the mainstream but you shouldn't take away the efforts of those who made Nollywood, Nollywood.

LagosPrince:

All Yoruba films Yet, living in bondage made more money and name than all this films you put out here.

Blazebond:
She should keep quiet,the Yoruba part of Nollywood never penetrated anywhere except youruba land and Yoruba natives,the part of Nollywood that brought about the breakthrough in the Nigerian film industry is the Nollywood that involved mainly the igbos and other producers and actors from the south-south, Herbert ogunde and co where big we know,but the real exposure came when living in bondage and co where released and nobody can take that away from the igbos who where a serious driving force then in the marketing and distribution of the films,all them Andy beat and co was way popular than any Yoruba film distributor or marketing person's and the reason why the Yoruba even have any aspect of Nollywood today is just because of lagos and that it is the big city that Igbo Nollywood always uses to shoot their big city movies,so make nobody try take the success of the growth of Nollywood away from the igbos at all,me I nor dey like partiality at all.

CSTRR:

That is definitely not what those Yoruba touts used as a means of identification.

If it was, they wouldn't have missed plenty of yorubas with the bad mouth and body odour.

90dbest:
You remind me of an argument I had with one them. I told the fellow that average Yoruba doesn't have characters that favours scientific knowledge. Since science does not base on emotions or sentiments which Yoruba value more than fact, they believe in propaganda to advance any cause. Even the the so called educated one among them lacks intellectual integrity.