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kanayo O kanayo makes first movie debut in nollywood as he shares it on his Instagram handle.


Source. https://chikasom..com/2017/10/kanayo-o-kanayo-makes-first-nollywood.html?m=1

Fine man no pimples

Fine lie, there was nothing like Nollywood in 1985, he was making cameo appearances on Basi & Company and ABS Tv dramas on televiosion in Enugu.
Knew the dude very well then.

Professor johnbull is now a grandpa

Many many good actors went under because of piracy problem.

A disgraceful country.

luvinhubby:
Fine lie, there was nothing like Nollywood in 1985, he was making cameo appearances on Basi & Company and ABS Tv dramas on televiosion in Enugu.

Knew the dude very well then.

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@ luvinhubby



Indeed, thanks for the info on Kanayo O. Kanayo's early acting cameo appearances in the 1980s in Enugu. You are the FIRST person that I will be revealing some very deep details and short document extracts to about the origins of the Nigerian movie industry in order to SMASH and correct some annoying historical distortions or URBAN LEGENDS!


The irritating terminology called "Nollywood"
was first used in 2002 by Matt Steinglass an American Journalist who did NOT have a deep knowledge about the origins of the Nigerian movie industry.



The Nigerian movie industry has been in existence for decades [the early 1950s] before the first film to be packaged on home video cassetes in Nigeria [Soso Meji] was produced in the Yoruba movie industry in 1988 by Ade Ajiboye!


The movie entitled "Soso Meji" was produced by Mr. Ade Ajiboye and it was also screened at the cinemas in Lagos.

In 1989, the late Prince Alade Aromire who
died in a car crash in Lagos also produced
"Ekun" on VHS home video. These early home
videos and the cinema screenings in Lagos State were very popular and sold out! There were several VHS home videos and cinema screenings in between 1988 and 1992 in the Yoruba genre of the Nigerian movie industry with Lagos as the entertainment capital. Prince Jide Kosoko also produced his FIRST EVER Yoruba language home video in 1989 just like Prince Alade Aromire.


In 1992, Kenneth Nnebue did an Ibo film
entitled Living in Bondage part1. It was the first Ibo home video packaged in VHS video cassetes and the part 2 came out in 1993.


Kenneth Nnebue gave CREDIT to the Indian
movie industry and the Yoruba movie industry which is a subset of the Nigerian movie industry for INSPIRING him to be the pioneer producer of the first Ibo language home video.
The film was supposed to have been done
in Yoruba language, and he had taken his script and was in touch with some Yoruba language home video producers but he decided to take the risk by taking the script and did it in Ibo. He said all these in an interview in a 1997 edition of ThisDay Newspapers which is still in my pocession or library collection.


Kenneth Nnebue NEVER at any time claimed that "Living in Bondage" was the beginning of
the Nigerian movie industry. It is some of his Ibo people with the advent of the Internet who didn't know how he started his career by understudying the Yoruba language movie producers of the cinema and home videos from 1988 in Lagos that mangled up the
history of the home video industry online.

Indeed, it's a SHAME that history is not being taken seriously by people in Nigeria, that is why this FALSEHOOD has been circulated by bloggers and on Social Media by those who were NOT born in the 1960s/1970s/1980s when Nigerian-produced movies where shown in Cinemas on celluloid packaging and from
1988 on VHS home video packaging in the
Yoruba movie industry till the advent of VCDs and more.


In fact his Ibo film was NOT even the FIRST in Nigeria. The first subtitled in English Ibo fiim was entitled "Amadi" in 1975 and it was screened in Lagos. It was subtitled in English and produced by a famous Yoruba filmmaker who was born in Aba by Yoruba parents one of whom was a lawyer. I also have a copy of a 1975 magazine that showed the first military governor of Lagos State, Brigadier General Mobolaji Johnson and Attorney General of Lagos State Justice Adefarasin in attendance
at the premier of "Amadi" at a Cultural Centre
in Lagos State. One of Justice Adefarasin's sons is Mike Adefarasin of "House on the Rock" on Lekki Peninsula.


The American and Indian movie industry
are based on mainly cinemas and NOT home videos. The Indians have long rejected the term "Bollywood" because they see it as an insult from the Western media.


Bollywood is a term created by the Western
media as a caricature of Hollywood. It is like
saying: Nigerian movie is a Hollywood
wannabe or copycat! This is why the Indians feel insulted when Bollywood [Hollywood in
Bombay] is used to describe their movie
industry which dates back to the 1920s.

Hence,the so-called "Nollywood" means [Hollywood in Nigeria] was formed or first used as I said before by an American journalist named Matt Steinglass in the New York Times in the year 2002! The adoption of that term amounts to colonial mentality by some Nigerians and the Nigerian media since Indians and the Indian cinema movies industry which is based on ONLY the Hindi language, have long REJECTED the silly terminology of "Bollywood."


All the best!

Pussitto:
kanayo O kanayo makes first movie debut in nollywood as he shares it on his Instagram handle.


Source. https://chikasom..com/2017/10/kanayo-o-kanayo-makes-first-nollywood.html?m=1

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@Pussitto


The vexatious terminology called "Nollywood"
was FIRST coined by an American Journalist
called Matt Steinglass in the New York Times
in 2002!


The Nigerian movie industry has been in
existence since the 1950s.

For example, Professor Wole Soyinka's
movie "Kongi's Harvest" was produced
and directed in Nigeria by Nigerians and
shown in the cinemas as a celluloid film
in 1969 and it received critical acclaim.
This is the reason why Prof Soyinka is
given the nickname: Kongo!


Please read the post above you that I made
to @luvinhubby for a FULLER and interesting response
to this topic.


All the best!