I just had to respond to this issue:
Some of what she says is true, but not all of it. Just a few days ago, a friend of mine called me with some serious marital issues. And as I tried to comfort her, she started to cry. As I watched her and tried to find the right words, it hit me that african women do not grieve and cry like oyinbo women. When we cry in real life when something happens, we roll all over the floor and scream our heads off , like my friend was doing.
White people are on the other hand more restrained by nature and that permeates into every aspect of their lives, including the way they show grief or pain.
How then can we show movies that are alien to who we are? How many people will relate to the woman in the movie who cries quietly, restrained without saying a word? Perhaps the ajebuttas will, and perhaps people like you and I who live abroad will, but not the average Nigerian. It would mean nothing to them.

Yeah, nollywood needs to be revamped. Of course. But we should not aim to become Hollywood. Their acting has become the standard of acting the world over, but we need to remember that it also reflects their culture, their way of life. I live in a very white area, and I tell you that the way they communicate, their mannerisms, very restrained, they have to pack a lot of symbolism into tiny gestures. That is reflected in their movies.

I think that the song and dance in Bollywood is cheesy and overdone. That is Indian culture and it is not going away anytime soon. Africans cry loudly. That is who we are. Who are we trying to reflect if we cannot be who we are in our movies?

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