Obichi98: Really understand why you are so blowing hot,even what saying it,God wil never forgive our thief thief leaders...Their children go even inherit from it.
ostopsmich: You must be a dreamer for saying Ado is more beautiful than Akure...Am not sure you know the true meaning of Beauty or were you carried to another town and was told Ado Ekiti? I Live in Ado, so I know what am saying....So, for your information Akure and Ado are incomparable, you compare Akure with towns like Abeokuta, Lagos etc
jaelz: okay state how much u made and explain how u made the money during your Nysc youth service year... how many Millon's you make and how did you make it corpers lets hear your stories so that other prospective corpers could learn... Please lets show our prospective corp members the way forward and even the normal business entrepreneurs.. Or even tho u know u a baller come in here and show d way forward...
obiorathesubtle: [color=#990100] they were two little black birds sitting on a wall, one named peter, one named paul, fly away peter, fly away paul..[/color]
Sibrah: What about the Duro Ladipo of this world? Like Gbawe rightly pointed out, it is more of a disservice to associate Ogunde with the current crop of film makers we have today, but at the same time i think he deserves the tag of "father of Nollywood" as Nollywood describes the Nigerian film industry at large.
true, but at the same time, nollywood doesn't really attest to the quality of his work.
just saying, nollywood folks should not carry it on their head and run to make interviews or photoshoots or whatever.
WarriPikin1: hmmmm, so Nigeria had quality films done in the 1950s that nobody knew about and the world definitely did not want to watch our "quality films" nor give any awards at all. But now the "crappy" film industry we call nollywood from 1991, is a global award wining African film industry which is much sort after. To the extent that our "crappy Nollywood film industry" have inspired other African countries to try and develop their own film industry. Somebody is telling a big lie here. Some Naija people sabi lie well well o!
well, you can thank America for issuing so many visas to Nigerians to go all over the world with their movies?
Becomrich0: Most of them were not doing film. Nollywood is about nigeria film industry, not about television. or stage production. It is film we are talking about. Ogunde is the one responsible for it. Film in nigeria those days had only one name ogunde. Even in the North where they did not speak or understand yoruba. His film was there, because it was the only nigeria film out there. They had no choice , it was either they watch hidu film or Ogunde film.
Baba sale later came to film. He did mostly television. Ishola ogunsola came after him. I show pepper. Ade love The other option those was bruce lee.
ElRazur: By the way, I wouldn't say he was the founder of nollywood. He was amongst the fore-fathers, but not exactly the founder.
I mean there have been actors and movies around the same time as his two most popular movies. Don't forget that these folks started on stage and doing "Theatre" as it is called back home, before shooting movies.
I think it is fair to credit others too - Oga Bello, Baba Sala, Aluwe, Ray Eyiwunmi and his group, Isho Pepper (Ishola Ogunshola) etc. Those are the people who in my opinion cleared the path to what is now nollywood.