‘Yorubas started Nollywood comment’: When Yorubas were Incharge of Theatre, people were not buying Local films to Watch in their homes – Kannayo O Kannayo counters actress

Veteran nollywood actor, Kanayo O Kanayo has countered nollywood saying Nollywood belongs to Yoruba.

It could recalled that freshreporters had in some weeks ago quoted the Nollywood actress Aisha Lawal saying in an interview that Yoruba actors and filmmakers ‘own Nollywood’ because according to her, ‘they started it.’

In an interview with Tribune, the filmmaker said;

“We own the industry. Go back to research. The industry belongs to the Yoruba people. If you go back to research, you will hear from people like Hubert Ogunde and Ade Love. I don’t want to go into details. “

“But, if you go and research very well, you will discover that Yorubas own this industry, we started this industry. We messed up at some point, but we are not playing catch-up. We are there already. Now, everybody wants to shoot a Yoruba movie.”

Countering her point, Kanayo said,

“Kenneth Nnebue, an Igbo man was producing Yoruba movies, then in 1991/1992 wrote a script titled ‘Living in Bondage’.

“Before then, the theaters belong to the Yorubas, no argument about that, but people were not buying local films to watch in their houses except foreign films. Immediately Kenneth Nnebue made ‘Living in Bondage’, it caught like wild fire and almost everybody bought into it, so home videos became a trend and a trade”

“Some left the business they were doing before to invest in movie production. The coming of ‘Living in Bondage’ gave rise to what we have today as Nollywood” he said. [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>