Uganda: The Trouble With Nigerian Movies

opinion

Some movie scenes are commendably African in the true sense but in maintaining this basic element, they don't do any justice to the person who has an early wakeup call. For instance, the typically African wailing and falling over when someone dies I'm aware it will be hard, after writing this, for me to shake off accusations of being the poster child for successful Western cultural imperialism but one has to take the risk.

I watched my first Nigerian movie in 1997. I was very impressionable then - for I was 10 years younger. And if my memory serves me, it was the hit movie (a hit in Nigeria, that is) titled Sakobi, which I think was also the name of its dazzling heroine.

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