a statement made without reference to one tribe has been blown out of proportion . If the thread was a chiege alisegwe interview .... and I had made the same statement would all this eye brow be raised '
Lanre , Bimbo are excellent performers, i doubt if they are totally off the scene . buky wright , yemi sholade are also good . The other names am not very familiar ,.. ... do refresh me with any of their movies
Are they they the only ones not being used as a matter of fact we also have EMG artist that are not frequent as before .. namely .. laz ekwueme, gloria anozie , uche osutule, rita nzelu .Liz beson etc . Vince , are they not igbos (excluding Liz) have they lost their skills are they not excellent . Why do you pin down every thing to yoruba or , igbo when the major problems lies ahead ... in addition, the industry is a big one and the producers will assemble who ever they wanna work with .
I don't have to go far , so I wouldn't compare or give names because it's a petty question.
Thank God for Oga solas post , the Yorubas have been in the scene before the igbos . What stops them from transforming their movies to english
you are right .. quite true
tribalism cuts across every industry . In the oil sector Mobil for example you have more naija delta as the work force . In the movie industry the marketers are the major players and because of the locations of their plays naturally they would take more of their people . ...Vince i put it to you that any tribe holding the ace will favor more of their people . ok.. lets not go too far .... thunderbolt-magun had the ratio 2:4 , uche and ngozi nwosu being the only non Yorubas or you name any other Yoruba production . I will google it and give you the ratio.... So my dear it can never be a balance equation.
The yoruba crews should come together , brainstorm .. work out something rather than blame their misery on the igbo marketer. Olu jacobs said in his interview .. What is wrong with the yoruba marketers ......hausa ..kennywood .. are picking up ... this is not the time to whine
Hmmm!In the late 90s and early 2000s, their were many crossover performers from the YMG sector doing english movies.
Performers like;
LANRE BALOGUN
FUNKE AKINDELE
BUKKY WRIGHT
YEMI SHOLADE
BIMBO AKINTOLA
BINTA AYO MOGAJI
MAHMOUD ARAB
FEMI OGEDEMGBE
etc.etc.
Performers like;
LANRE BALOGUN
FUNKE AKINDELE
BUKKY WRIGHT
YEMI SHOLADE
BIMBO AKINTOLA
BINTA AYO MOGAJI
MAHMOUD ARAB
FEMI OGEDEMGBE
etc.etc.
These performers are still around.So what happened?They suddenly lost their english speaking skills?.
Which of the current EMG actor has a better command of spoken english than LANRE BALOGUN?Which one?..
You sure make a big deal out of speaking this english,chi.The fact of the matter is(take it or leave it) tribalism has completely changed the landscape of the EMG sector to a far less welcoming sector for yoruba or other non-igbo performers, than it was in the late 90s and early 2000s.....
BTW,crossover performers should have the widest audience base than any performer operating in one single sector,
so it should be the standard for most nollywood performers to operate in more than one sector,and most popular too,but it is not.Why?
The yoruba crews should come together , brainstorm .. work out something rather than blame their misery on the igbo marketer. Olu jacobs said in his interview .. What is wrong with the yoruba marketers ......hausa ..kennywood .. are picking up ... this is not the time to whine