The Foreign Documentary Films on Nollywood Omitted Many Important Facts

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There should be documentary series on #Nollywood that will tell the comprehensive development of how the introduction of Video Home System (VHS) in Nigeria started the Direct-to-video home videos of Nigerian dramas and comedies by the Yoruba dramatists and Hausa dramatists in the early 1980s during the VHS/Betamax era with the VCRs.


The first Nigerian movie to be sold on home video was "Orun Mooru" in 1982, directed by Dr. Ola Balogun and produced by Moses Olaiya, popularly known as "Baba Sala", the famous Nigerian comedian who passed away on October 7, 2018. Pirates sold the home video before the film was released.

The first official Nigerian home video was
Muyideen Alade Aromire's "Ekun" produced in 1984. Aromire made other movies for home videos after "Ekun". Muyideen Alade Aromire studied film and television productions in Cologne, Western Germany.
There was also “The Witch Doctor of the Living Dead” made by Prince Charles Abi Enonchong in 1986 according veteran actor, Lari Williams. But Enonchong is a Cameroon filmmaker who should be part of Collywood of the Cameroon Film Industry.
Charles created the Enonchong O-Reilly Productions in the United States and produced his first film titled, "The Nigerian Biafra War", in 1986. Many film historians of filmmaking in Nigeria are ignorant of the film.

"Living in Bondage" 1and 2 of 1992/93 were directed by Chris Obi Rapu and Christian Chika Onu, written by Kenneth Nnebue and Okechukwu Ogunjiofor and produced by Okechukwu Ogunjiofor. It was the first Nollywood blockbuster movie on video before the name of "Nollywood" was coined by Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times in 2002.But all the documentary films by foreign filmmakers on Nollywood have omitted the name of the Father of Nigerian home videos, the late Alade Aromire and other important and significant facts.


~ By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series
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