Originally Posted by cheriah

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.