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Originally Posted by michelin89
I can also make a movie, abi? 
Studying won't do any bad to these script-writers. afterall it's about knowing your country.
It's not a matter of every tribe making their own movie because that would be a reflection of the social and tribal fragmentation in Nigeria, can't there be some sort of unity and coorperation to show every side of Nigeria? Without necessarily labelling any one good or bad. An objective view of Nigeria. I'd be grateful if they were in English because right now I am having hard times understanding my native language. By the ways I am Esan.
Until Tom and Jerry dey do their own thing, how can we get rid of those stereotypes and common grounds?
We are rich of history, what about lovely epic movies narrating legends from every part of Nigeria? I enjoyed Sango for example. |
I understand your plea but you must you fail to understand because you are seeing Nigeria as one union when it is far from it.
It is highly unlikely that an Igbo man is going to want to tell the story of a Yoruba man or for an Hausa man to think about making a movie that would tell the story of an Esan one.
Not only that an Igbo or Esan story coming from the mouth of a Yoruba man be unrealistic and but it would also fail to communicate certain nuances in the culture that only an Esan man would know.
That is like asking Chinua Achebe why he didn't set some of his stories in a pre-colonial Hausa or Itsekiri Village?
The country and people are not united like that no matter what our political entity dictates.
In Nigeria, in order for a certain ethnic group to have a voice they need to make some noise because no one is going to do it for them. And that is why I suggested that people like you in your ethnic group who have an interest in seeing films from that show Esan culture should do it themselves.
Simply put, no one can tell their stories better than they can.