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.

freestuff always spilling rubbish as usual. Nairaland version of lie lie Mohammed

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 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.

yoruba started yoruba movies for yoruba people only no body know about ogunde in South south or south east we are not talking of yollywood but nollywood,yoruba film didn't discover omotola or some other popular yoruba actors and actresses ,living in bandage is birth of nollywood tribalism no reach there ,when nigeria International known female gospel artists are mentioned tope alabi is not among you tube can help you, for yoruba tope popular

Padipadi:

I m saying what you are saying

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

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

Nigerian actors and actresses own Nollywood whether it's Yoruba or Igbo or Hausa Genre and not Yoruba lagba or whatever you call it.

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.

And the name "Nollywood" was given by An Igbo . Does it tell you anything?

Taylor90:


May this movie Aisha started favor me and my family

you mean movie can favour people, hhhhmmm oletike

Omoawoke:


Nobody knows UNN outside of Nigeria

The most known schools are UI, Unilag and OAU. Covenant is becoming known too and all schools are in southwest

Yorubas own entertainment. Even the tv soap operas were started by Yorubas and still dominated by Yorubas

Lol, see this olodo. The world revolves around your brown roof junkyard

Kalakulu:
I can name 10 Yoruba actors and actresses that became very popular when they made screenplays on Igbo produced Nollywood movies...Ramsey Noah (half Yoruba) became a sensation when he was featured in those classic lover boy movies all produced by Igbos, Desmond Elliot another Yoruba boy went from the "Everyday people" TV show regular guy to becoming a popular super star actor when he started acting in Igbo Nollywood English movies, Bimbo Akintola, Omotola Jolade, Olu Jacob's (even though he was a bit popular in the few 80's British sit coms he featured in) but his prototype Igwe roles earned him more fame across Africa, Eniola Badmus, Jibola Dabo etc. None of these actors made it big in Yoruba Nollywood so they had to find their fame in the Igbo Nollywood English movies. How many Igbos made it big in Yorubawood movies? infact how many Non- Yorubas besides a few made it big by casting in yorubawood?! but lots of Nollywood stars of South West and South South extractions were popular across Africa cause of major roles they played in Igbo produced classic movies...the likes of Shan George, Sam Loco Efe, JT Tom West, Kate Henshaw, Dakore Egbuson and several other South South actors and actresses became famous from Igbo Nollywood movies.

ole... Everyday people is owned by chief tajudeen... The owner of soundcity and trybe TV

Stop lieing to the audience... Una too dey lie...

foleskay:

You're deluded. Even nigga raw can not claim he started indigenous rap. Go google eddy remedy aka player meji.. Ojb jezreeel. When did nigga raw starr rapping. U re a real clown.

And there are Igbo rappers of those generation too. In this present time, yorubas use the da grin era as the beginning of indegenous rap, but igbo raps created waves for many years before that, just that they didn't move to Lagos till Phyno. That's my point

LagosPrince:
Yoruba started Nollywood yet, most Yoruba actors and actresses didn't break through the English version of Nollywood from baba suwe to Mr latin down to Femi adebayo.

The Igbos gave Nollywood life and since Yoruba actors and actresses couldn't break through the English version of Nollywood probably because their english sucks, Dem kuku create Nollywood Yoruba to console themselves.

Yoruba English suck So in your life you can never be responsible in anything?

So Jide Kosoko etc who had be in the industry on both English and Yoruba platform their English is suck ba? Pls where is your brain gone? See how tribal hatred destroyed been responsible for once in your lifetime.

Grow up failure to grow up will ends you in misery unresolved. Take it or lave Yoruba started Nollywood.

igwebuike01:

And there are Igbo rappers of those generation too. In this present time, yorubas use the da grin era as the beginning of indegenous rap, but igbo raps created waves for many years before that, just that they didn't move to Lagos till Phyno. That's my point

stop lieing... A. Y Started the rap in Yoruba language in 90s not dagrin

We are all aware that Yorubas are first to discover Skull ☠️💀 mining ⛏️
Nonsense children of Nairaland

Dareal90s:

Why e dey pain you? You see ur brothers shouting igbos started it first but na Yorubas u dey attack.

The post is unnecessary
Everything must not be an avenue to compare urselves to the igbos
U done chop?

LagosPrince:
Yoruba started Nollywood yet, most Yoruba actors and actresses didn't break through the English version of Nollywood from baba suwe to Mr latin down to Femi adebayo.

The Igbos gave Nollywood life and since Yoruba actors and actresses couldn't break through the English version of Nollywood probably because their english sucks, Dem kuku create Nollywood Yoruba to console themselves.

It either you lack comprehension or ladipo boyz remove your brain box

She said it, ' at some point Yorubas movies messed up and people got tired of it because the world was evolving into a modernization, its either english or hide your face

But as she rightly concluded, Yorubas movies have evolved and taken over, infact igbo/english movies don't come close to the budget of some yoruba movies being shot now
the highest grossing movie box started way back from mainframe opomulero productions tunde kilani and now its back with the likes of kunle afolayan, femi adebayo and funke akindele, the english nollywood is at its prime while Yoruba wood seem to have so much yet to be untapped

Funnily, I don't expect you to understand, you can't give what you don't have

funmijoyb:
Who doesn't know Yoruba started Nollywood and Music in Nigeria.
South Westerners are the pioneers entertainments including skits and comedy

From there they started pushing drugs a d doing ritual in cover of music

Ritchiee:

Nollywood is just a name,a nomenclature given by a US movie analyst just like Hollywood and Bollywood.
Does it mean that it is that analyst that started movies in Nigeria?

I tried to read comments without saying a word.

But I've been wondering and tempted to ask, why is it that an average Yoruba man is tribalistic and hatred filled in nature?? If i don't have it, no one else should have it.

CSTRR:
It's in Yorubaland that you will see a professor of philosophy would tell you that he is voting for tinubu because he is a Yoruba man like him.

Character is none of his business as long as the candidate can speak the same language as him.

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...

Omoawoke2:


Lagos influence Lagos influence

Abeg, na Igbo get Lagos

If wishes were horses, igbos will lift Lagos on their heads and carry it to southeast. Lmao

The point is, if you don't know about something because it's not in Lagos doesn't mean such thing doesn't exist.

CSTRR:

I doubt it.

Only someone that does not closely study Nigeria would believe so.

he's right oga, igbos re very tribalistic I know this first hand in reality.

LagosPrince:


Yoruba don't have any film that one can remember the name.

But everyone remembered Living in bondage

Have you heard of "shaworo ide"?

GoodLife4live:
A. Y is the first nigeria to rap in Yoruba language in 90s..

It be like say u be indomie generation... Most of your comments are being generated from social media ...

No physical experience

I don't know about 90s but I'm sure those people had Igbos raps too not know in Lagos. This is my point about how you use Lagos influence to claim everything

Yorubas own everything in Nigeria right now. From appointments to nollywood. It’s okay

ElSudani:


There are no more home videos today. So, is Nollywood gone as well?
The lady was right, it all started with folks like Hubert Ogunde, Ade Love, Baba Sala, Jimoh Aliu and others.
The home video time was just a phase in the evolution of the movie industry, it wasn't a new Industry.

But the name "Nollywood" was coined during the VHS era after the commercial success brought by Igbos into movie industry. You can give new name to the streaming platforms era. Meanwhile lion hearts was the first nollywood movie on Netflix

Indifferent

kay29000:


That's because Yoruba people are proud and have always been proud of their culture... And that's why it's their movies that are getting worldwide recognition. You can't beat Oyibo people by trying to be Oyibo. Think about it.

Nollywood is all about igbos culture. Language is a different thing. Chinese epic movies are mainly English. Business first

Omoawoke2:


We are talking of who started it, and commercialized nollywood. Well history cannot be changed. It started with Yoruba

And currently, Yoruba movies are the ones breaking the internet and going international. Check what’s happening today. Check the top 10 nollywood movies in the cinemas or Netflix, Yorubas have completely dominated and taken over

How about top ten showing on African Magic? Everybody have their own areas of strength bro

LagosPrince:
Yoruba started Nollywood yet, most Yoruba actors and actresses didn't break through the English version of Nollywood from baba suwe to Mr latin down to Femi adebayo.

The Igbos gave Nollywood life and since Yoruba actors and actresses couldn't break through the English version of Nollywood probably because their english sucks, Dem kuku create Nollywood Yoruba to console themselves.

Im sure , you are just trying to get noticed.... What is giving yorubas edge is promoting their culture and not promoting English language, check the content of the yoruba movies and the ones in English nollywood.... Movie is not just all about useless stories where the end can be predicted.
Check yoruba music too, infact if any artist must blow in Nigeria, they must infuse Yoruba language into their lyrics to give it a unique touch....

Stop playing, stay humble and learn, yorubas are not chestbeaters

I get the point the yorubas are trying to make and wants us to understand, that they the yorubas have been into acting long before the Igbos came and breathe life into acting and then christening it nollywood.

I admire their points and sense of reasoning, because by doing that they actually admits that whatever the igbos touch actually turns to gold. But that they can't swallow pride and accept it.

Any day igbos rule Nigeria, people will actually smile and thank God for things will turn around for better.

foleskay:

Well done with ur disjointed post. Well ur first line has said it all. We are still the pioneer. We paved the way for ibos rejuvenation. Its normal

they're so insecure isn't that what the Aisha is saying which he re echo... Funny guys... That's why they want Third position obi to be president by force

Ykc2:
yoruba started yoruba movies for yoruba people only no body know about ogunde in South south or south east we are not talking of yollywood but nollywood,yoruba film didn't discover omotola or some other popular yoruba actors and actresses ,living in bandage is birth of nollywood tribalism no reach there ,when nigeria International known female gospel artists are mentioned tope alabi is not among you tube can help you, for yoruba tope popular

Thank you. Yorubas claim to be dominating music, forgetting igbos total dominace in Christian gospel music

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It may seem that everyone in this shithole is taking credit for one nonsense or the other. In all, we are still an inconsequential third world country.

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