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kayfra:
Garbage post

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:
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#

I don't want to talk much.

Dlonra:
Ignorance is making you do zero research about East Africa and create your imaginary conspiracies. Secondary Cities like Mombasa, Mwanza, Kisumu, Hergeysa and Nakuru still make Secondary Cities in West Africa look like a Joke.

Look what Austine1213 is posting and see the rubbish you're posting. Such embarrassed shitthol

kayfra:
WTF does that have to do with anything?

Don Jazzy is Isoko

But he's from Umuahia

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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.[/quote]

Thonypadua:
If you agreed on one of the biggest and not the biggest.
I agree with you, But you sound mature ooo bro.
Keep it up

See lemme just tell you the truth bro. I'm not a fan of tribalism. I love Yorubas just the way I love my tribe and other tribes in the country . I use to defend my country very well whenever they're battling with other African countries. Most times they'll be insulting Yorubas and Igbos. If they insult both tribes I got mad. Because I see all of us as one. Me I no fit watch make Dem dey insult any tribe in Nigeria. I swear Na lie. Make that person ready for me. This argument between Igbos and Yorubas on Nairaland alone they make other poor poor African countries they laugh our country. That's why I attacked that SA guy.

Thonypadua:
So you don't know
Sola Sobowale, Akin Lewis, Toyin Abraham, Saheed Balogun, mercy Aigbe, Fatia Balogun, And the rest.
I bleeped up for not being online yesterday to give you the name of our Celebrity in Oyo state

Omo they're not recognize in the world. Are they more recognized than, Mike ezuruonye, Nonso diobi, Genevieve Nnaji, Yul edochie, Emeka Ike, Oge okoye, Chioma chukwuka etc. This are just little of them. But they're far more recognized than the ones you listed above.

Thonypadua:
English, One of the!!!!

I know it was written "the biggest in West Africa"? But that doesn't change the fact that Onitsha main market still remains one of the biggest market in Africa.

forgiveness:
Of course, owned by the public (oyinbo).

You can see I am busy learning here. On a good day, you know how we roll.

I don't want to talk. Cos I already know

kayfra:
All the better produced Nollywood films, the highest selling and the ones that make it to Netflix are dominated by the sophisticated ones.

List them. Because they're not recognize in the world at all at all. Igbos still dominate Nollywood. Nollywood belongs to Igbos. Even a new born baby knows that

Sunshineg5:
I didn't say you can delude yourself

Where you get this thing from Bros.

agadez007:
No need to argue with them just tell them to bring their biggest export Odunkola and let's bring just Chinedu iheme(Aki) and take them to maybe Kenya and let's see who would get more attention

Nobody watches their movies except them

I don't even know any of their movies. The only Yoruba actor and actress I know are funke akindele, Olu Jacob that's all. Are they're so Maning Igbo village films. The fact is that, the world reffered Nollywood as igbos.

seanwilliam:
which of igbo musicians can compare with Davido, Wizkid and olamide, fela, tiwa ?? For entertainment, forget southwest lead..



Also Yoruba movies are more popular

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

Benevento:
we still control the Nollywood till today.

we produce quality films not village films.

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


we won this argument not just because we provided better Points but because we backed up our points with source.

Nollywood is controlled by Igbos. Even the whole world knows that. All this things you're posting is just tantrums. We own Nollywood. 90% of Nollywood movies are shots in Enugu, asaba and Onitsha.

forgiveness:
I noticed too. It was after those Kenyans gather liver to compete with SA.

Precisely

Austine1213:
Lol cancan i leave?

You funny

You know your way out bro

Sunshineg5:
Lol

During the Covid lock down abi?

Before the Covid lock down oh

forgiveness:
Hahahaha! chaiiiii!

forgiveness:
Hahahaha! You no see as dem mellow now adays.

Next time dem go look well before dem put noise for naija matter.

E even reach the extent wey him come dey support Nigerians

forgiveness:
Hahahaha! Poverty don kill dem even without lockdown. Imagine what will happen during lockdown.

That time Dem go become Turkana In Kenya

forgiveness:
Na my boy na.

South African porking his noise in Nigerians affairs.

Walai. You really rough handle that guy for that thread no be small

Sunshineg5:
Hey bruv, What about the majority of your people living in Shanty towns and waiting for 300 Rands government grant to take care of their children

Are they living in Affluence?

Here they're

Austine1213:
100m people in Nigeria are living in EXTREME POVERTY

Thats like 2x our entire population in the country

USA also has poverty, same goes for uk and all other developed countries

Show me where 100m people are living in extreme poverty in Nigeria. Stop talking crap man. What's going on here in your wonderful land built by the whites

Thonypadua:
Are you telling me the guy is from SA?
tell him to leave before will go reason him matter.

The guy na SA guy. Always involving himself on anything That dosent concern South Africa and it citizens. We dey reason him matter for Kenya vs Nigeria thread, ask forgiveness him go gist you more

seanwilliam:
which of igbo musicians can compare with Davido, Wizkid and olamide, fela, tiwa ?? For entertainment, forget southwest lead..



Also Yoruba movies are more popular

Don jazzy, P-square, Tekno, Phyno, flavour, Patoraking etc. We also own Nollywood, the third in the whole world. Igbos no be childs play.

Austine1213:
It helps it to be like this

This is the only beautiful place in South Africa. And they're built by the whites

Austine1213:
Best universities
Best advanced economy
Best cost of living
Best roads
Best formal market
Best companies
Best real estate
Etc

With all this you're still battling with recession and poverty.

Austine1213:
Because its most developed

How is that helping your economy

Thonypadua:
Be mature enough ,you don't need to call anyone mumu

But he's busy calling someone a village boy, right!

Austine1213:
Idaban cannot be compared to, johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, Capetown

Its way below standards

This is between Nigerians Mr Austin

Sunshineg5:
Knock yourself out?

What makes Onitsha the biggest market in Africa