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Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:29pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko: Edit Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde, D.Lit. (10 July 1916 – 4 April 1990) was a Nigerian actor, playwright, theatre manager, and musician who founded the first contemporary professional theatrical company in Nigeria, the African Music Research Party, in 1945. Hubert Adedeji Ogunde Born Hubert Adedeji Ogunde 10 July 1916 Ososa, Ogun State Died 4 April 1990 (aged 73) London, England Occupation Playwright, actor Nationality Nigerian Period 1944–90 Genre Drama, satire Notable works Yoruba Ronu, Aiye Notable awards Doctor of Letters from the University of Ife and University of Lagos, Nigeria Spouse More than 10 Children 17 He changed the name to Ogunde Theater Party in 1947 and Ogunde Concert Party in 1950. Finally, in 1960, he changed it to Ogunde Theater, a name which remained until his death in 1990. He has been described as "the father of Nigerian theatre, or the father of contemporary Yoruba theatre".[1] In his career on stage, he wrote more than 50 plays,[2] most of which incorporate dramatic action, dance and music, with a story reflecting the political and social realities of the period.[3] His first production was a church-financed play called The Garden of Eden. It premiered at Glover Memorial Hall, Lagos, in 1944. Its success encouraged Ogunde to produce more plays, and he soon left his job with the police force for a career in the theatre. In the 1940s, he released some plays with political commentaries: The Tiger's Empire, Strike and Hunger and Bread and Bullet. During the 1950s, he toured various Nigerian cities with his travelling troupe. In 1964, he released Yoruba Ronu, a play that generated controversy and earned him the wrath of Chief Akintola, premier of the Western Region. The Ogunde Theater was banned in the Western Region of Nigeria for two years as a result. This ban was only revoked by the new military government of Lt. Col. F. A. Fajuyi on the 4th of February, 1966. In the late 1970s, Ogunde was spurred by the success of Ija Ominira and Ajani Ogun, two pioneering Yoruba feature-length films, to co-produce his first celluloid film, Aiye, in 1979. He released Jaiyesimi, Aropin N'tenia and Ayanmo, feature-length films influenced by Yoruba mysticism, thereafter. Ogunde starred in Mister Johnson,[1] the 1990 motion picture that also featured Pierce Brosnan. The movie was shot on location in Toro, near Bauchi, Nigeria. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:32pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko: Moses Olaiya (18 May 1936 – 7 October 2018),[1] better known by his stage name "Baba Sala", was a Nigerian comedian, dramatist and actor. Moses Olaiya Born Moses Olaiya Adejumo 18 May 1936 Ilesha, Osun State, Nigeria Died 7 October 2018 (aged 82) Ilesha, Osun State, Nigeria Other names Baba Sala Children Emmanuel Adejumo, Mayowa Adejumo A Yoruba from Ijesha, Baba Sala, regarded as the father of modern Nigerian comedy,[2] alongside other dramatists like Hubert Ogunde, Kola Ogunmola, Oyin Adejobi and Duro Ladipo popularized theater and television acting in Nigeria. He was a prolific filmmaker. Significantly, Baba Sala started his career in show business as a Highlife musician, fronting in 1964 a group known as the Federal Rhythm Dandies where he tutored and guided the jùjú music maestro King Sunny Adé who was his lead guitar player. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 10:37pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:Known only in youbaland, local champion... can't hold a touch to any past or contemporary Igbo figure. Nobody outside yorubaland knows about whatever local cinema Ogunde pioneered, but all over Africa, the first HOME MADE MOVIE produced by Igbos sold millions of copies all over Nigeria and beyond, I'm talking about Living in Bondage, that was the movie that set the pace for the Nigerian home video industry. |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:37pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Baifrans bombed casino cinemas in Lagos in 1967,do your remember that?casino cinemas ,where they showed movies.you are talking of 1990 video 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by kayfra: 10:38pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u: Why are you wasting your time on a lout? 4 Likes |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:39pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Did you read the profile of ogunde,just posted?selling Yoruba culture and traditions to the outside world. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:44pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Which year did you olas24u:Which year did you get TV?in igbo land ,?the first television station now NTA was western Nigerian TV.. 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 10:44pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:Like I said Ogunde started the local cinema industry, but only went as far depicting live drama performances without televsing it in the modern context of movie production(HOME MADE VIDEOS) not sure you are getting my point, or maybe you are just slow. Yorubas started the local cinema industry, but Igbos took it to a bigger and wider audience level by been the first to Once again PRODUCE THE FIRST HOME MADE VIDEO ever in Nigeria, this time you could actually watch a Nigerian movie on TV... from the comfort of your home without traveling miles to watch Mr Ogunde's drama club perform on stage. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:46pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:You produced the English version not the first.yorubas were also on tape. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:47pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:So without TV can you watch videos?? 1 Like |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:50pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Alade aromire produced Yoruba movies on tape. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 10:51pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:No Ogunde only appeared on tape years later, he was NEVER televised till some years after his death when people even became aware of him. Living in Bondage wasn't even filmed in English but Igbo but with Igbo subtitles... It was only translated to English later after its earlier production, yet was the first major home video watched on TV from all cross sections of Nigeria. |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:51pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Alade aromire |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:56pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko: Muyideen Aromire, an ace Nollywood actor, popularly known as Alade, who was believed to have produced the first home video in Nigeria.,he produced Yoruba movies. 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 10:59pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Muyideen Aromire, an ace Nollywood actor, popularly known as Alade, who was believed to have produced the first home video in Nigeria 1 Like |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 11:17pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:LOL guy stop this nonsense, every Nigerian knows and recognizes Living in Bondage was and remains the first ever produced commercial home video (a simple Google search is there). I mean there's nobody in Nigeria regardless of ethnicity that hasn't heard about or watched that movie, can't say the for your Alade movie or whatever it's called. Note Living in Bondage sold far more copies than any home made videos made from the late 80's to the 90's. |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 11:20pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:He was known in Brazil, Venezuela,Trinidad and Tobago,Cuba ,Benin, Togo,Ghana,Ivory coast, America, unitedkingdom,western Germany now part of Germany. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 11:22pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Is not every Nigerian,I know what you are talking about,that is Kenneth and it was in 1992.aromire produced in 1989. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 11:22pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:Please provide your source that Herbet Ogunde was that known or acclaimed, which of his work made it into those counties? I need facts. |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 11:23pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:They produced for Yoruba audience in those locations and it's online |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 11:24pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:Straight from Google database itself. "The first Nigerian films were made by filmmakers such as Ola Balogun and Hubert Ogunde in the 1960s, but they were frustrated by the high cost of film production. But in 1992 Nigeria's home video industry, popularly known as Nollywood, took a dynamic turn with the release of the movie “Living in Bondage“. |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 11:28pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:Mention any of the works or cinema productions by Muyideen or Ogunde to any Nigerian today (except old generation yorubas) , they will more than likely come up blank. But mention or show Living in Bondage VHS to any African who follows Nigerian movies well or even any young or old Nigerian today, chances are they will recognize the movie immediately. |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 11:29pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:The first film produced on video in Nigeria is 1988's Soso Meji, produced by Ade Ajiboye. Subsequently, Alade Aromire produced Ekun (1989) on video. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by BaaleOko: 11:32pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
olas24u:Local audience, All Nigerians (Ijaw, Igbo, Efik, Hausa, Ibibio etc) watched Living in Bondage, at least on average basis, chances are majority of Nigerian homes had Living in bondage VHS cassettes in its stock (I bet your family did as well if you are going to be honest). my point is Living in Bondage set the dynamics of movie production in Nigeria to its golden age, any other film produced before that died with a very narrow audience of mainly just yorubas. |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 11:41pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:Seems my English is difficult for you?living in bondage was produced in 1992 and it is the first movie in English language,I repeat English language in nigeria.alade has producd in his own mother tongue.yoruba language. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 11:47pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
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Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by olas24u(f): 11:50pm On Apr 11, 2019 |
BaaleOko:You are delusional and continue to think Nigeria is meant to be one country.yorubas produced a movie in 1989and you produced an English language movie in 1992,and you think I don't know what am saying.the movies were produced for Yoruba audiences abroad and Nigeria. 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by kayfra: 12:19am On Apr 12, 2019 |
I don't know why you keep arguing with a numb skull. Ogunde, Ade Love, Baba Sala etc had been shooting high quality movies with professional and expensive production on celluloid and going straight into the cinemas and movie festivals worldwide. This uncivilized beast wants you to compete with who was first to shoot with a disposable camcorder and straight to useless VHS tape? Nobody wants to compete with who was first to mass produce gutter movies. A race to the bottom. What manner of fuckery is that 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Igbos In Lagos Adopt "Back Home" Strategy. How True? by Konquest: 1:42am On Apr 12, 2019 |
BaaleOko:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ @BaaleOko Living in bondage is an Ibo language film NOT an English film. It was only subtitled in English. The man who produced the film, Kenneth Nnebue in a 1997 This Day newspaper, that I have in my archival collections, actually gave credit to the Yoruba home video and movie industry for inspiring him to produce Living in bondage part 1 in 1992 and Part 2 was in 1993. Kenneth Nnebue said in that 1997 interview which I can upload when I check my Google Drive, that he understudied the Yoruba home video and movie industry and actually worked with them. Kenneth NEVER claimed to be the one that started the home video industry... it is some younger generation of Ibos who started spreading FAKE NEWS ONLINE and OFFLINE that should be held responsible for the misleading info because HISTORY is not being taught anymore. Even entertainment journalists are guilty of NOT knowing the true history of the Nigerian movie industry which STARTED with celluloid films, and then home video films in the 1980s with the Yoruba sector. Some of those Yoruba films and home videos were subtitled in English too. It is NOT true that they were not subtitled in English! Kenneth Nnebue even indicated that Living in Bondage was supposed to have been produced in Yoruba language, but eventually he did it in Ibo and it became a success, especially among the Ibo who had asked him for something in the home video industry like the popular Yoruba home videos that existed then! In the interview, Kenneth listed about 20 Yoruba home videos that were produced before living in bondage and he also gave REASONS why he used the English language as the title name of an Ibo language film. He said he did not want people to think the film was a local film and that is why he did not use Ibo language as the title of the film name. Tunde Kelani of Mainframe was also producing fantastic home videos in the early 1990s so it is not true that Yoruba videos were substandard and they were even subtitled. It is a BIG LIE and propaganda being peddled online that Living in Bondage was the start of the home video in Nigeria. Those of us who are older will tell you that we watched home videos on Beta Max and VHS tapes. This film was the 1st Ibo language home video and that is why it was popular among mainly Ibo speakers and some who could have the patience to read the English subtitle. Many non Ibos have not even watched that film till today! Please note that Amadi was the 1st Ibo langauge film to be subtitled in English and it was shown in 1975 in Lagos with Justice Adefarasin of Lagos State, and other notable government officials in attendance! I also have a copy of that magazine that reported the screening of Amadi in Lagos. When I have the chance I will DISGRACE a lot of these Nigerians who like mangling historical information by releasing all those historical documents to SET the Nigerian movie industry records straight. The misleading information online and offline has to stop. The Yoruba home videos and celluloid movies by people like Prince Alade Aromire, Ade Love who is Kunle Afolayans father were subtitled in English as far back as the 1980s. We had Chief Eddie Ugboma, Baba Sala, Prof. Ola Balogun, Ade Love, Prof. Soyinka... and more who produced movies from the 1960s, to the 1970s, 1980s, and then a group of misguided people will come out to FALSELY say that Kenneth Nnebues home video started the film industry... but that is a BIG LIE! Professor Wole Soyinka produced a POPULAR celluloid movie called Kongi's Harvest which was screened at the cinemas in Lagos and elsewhere in 1969! The Indian and American movie industries are based on multiplex cinema attendance ... NOT on sale of home videos! I hope this helps? Cc :olas24u Cc :kayfra 3 Likes 2 Shares |
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