The Nigerian movie industry popularly known as Nollywood inarguably is the third largest movie industry in the world after Hollywood and directly behind Bollywood.
The industry which officially began with the legendary film entitled, “Living In Bondage,” in 1992 was unique.
The movie was well scripted, produced and directed but obviously the story-line was a wrong projection of the rich Alkebulan cultural heritage, a blatant insult on the values and morality of the Igbo race particularly, and Nigeria generally.
It negatively portrayed Ndi Igbo as evil, who placed premium on money than human life. It ridiculed the very existence of the beliefs of an average Igbo person, and this scandalous projection, unfortunately, is still very much alive today as other Alkebulan races see any extremely successful Igbo individual as someone who amassed riches by shedding of human blood for sacrifices which on the contrary is not the actual personality of the Igbo person.
Without mincing words, the creativity deployed in creating the original story, master scene script and overall production, as well as the characterisation of the entire cast, was absolutely mind-blowing. It immediately redefined film-making in Nigeria and the entirety of the Black continent of Alkebulan.
Living In Bondage changed the narrative of film-making in Nigeria and little wonder after over twenty years recently, the film, was reproduced with same story-line with more advanced hi-tech equipment, and at about $500, 000 USD, which in Nigeria, and the rest of Alkebulan as a fortune with A-list cast that are bankable.
The most pathetic thing about Nollywood today is that the practitioners are yet to realise that irrespective of their well commendable improvements in the use of technology to tell their story that a film-maker is a social crusader and reformer who not only makes film for entertainment but social reforms as well.
A film-maker as a motion-picture artist is the mirror of the society, and it is paramount, he or she creates a story that will reform things in the society for good and not to ridicule their cultural heritage while promoting imperialism.
No matter how good imperialism appears to be, it will never bring economic development and total freedom of a people in given continent or race, and that, unfortunately, is the disastrous situation Alkebuan is being confronted with currently in spite of her abundant natural and human resources.
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These days one will hardly see good films in Nollywood that project our image as Black people, as a people of the rare melanated blood. All we see are very disheartening projections of our rich cultural values as evil while promoting the foreign organised religion, same religion of Abrahamic origin which was used to subjugate and enslave our ancestors by the western imperialists.
Our culture is seen as evil but our immoral enslavers are praised to high Heavens, and at every opportunity we don’t cease to introduce the mythical Jesus Christ and superimpose him as our saviour to liberate us from pains and sufferings which the same western imperialists that stole our gold, oil, and diamond and subtly used to create the concept of God to us – Gold, Oil, and Diamond.
This malicious trend in film-making of ridiculing our culture and promoting Western imperialism out of ignorance is not only getting on the nerves of our ancestors who paid the ultimate price by rejecting imperialism which is responsible today for our underdevelopment as a people but also forcing them to fight to preserve their eternal belief and rich cultural heritage, and that is why there’s so many deaths in Nollywood every year.
The practitioners die in their numbers today recklessly because they keep desecrating the memory of our ancestors by labeling and projecting them as evil while promoting the images of their immoral enslavers as people of honour, and the proponents of salvation.
If this desecration of the memory of our ancestors doesn’t stop the deaths in Nollywood will never stop, and the truth will always be that those immoral enslavers from the West and Arab nations whom we are projecting, and giving a rich culture in actuality, don’t have any culture worthy of respect like Alkebulan.
Indeed, they are profiteers who value Gold, Oil, and Diamond more than human lives, and that’s why they created the acronym God for us to worship instead of respect and love for human lives.
They took away our belief in the Eternal Creator of the human race and universe and deceived us to worship material things which don’t have any correlation with the Eternal Source of Creation whom our strength is supposed to come from as people.
It is high time, film-makers in the Black continent go back to review our true history as a people so that they can really comprehend the nit-gritty of culture instead of using motion-picture to peddle ignorance and facilitate their untimely deaths by angering our revered ancestors.
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AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
