Talking Movies..

 Mazi Odera Dialoging with NOLLYWOOD Movie Makers by Mkpisi Ndi Egede.

Ndi NOLLYWOOD ekenem Unu, I would've said Good Morning but I am not in the mood for pleasantries because what you guys have reduced Nigeria to is not here, but the one that makes me to Vex like Vespa is the fact that almost all the Films you are acting are always laced with EVIL UNCLE, EVIL MOTHER INLAW, EVIL BROTHERS, EVIL SISTERS or the newer version where one idiot  who is Village Champion will met a Friend who is Rich and will take him to Town, next they will enter Cult or met VOODOO man who will help him and perform Ritual and he will be very Rich at the expense of a loved one, as if the writers of the Script no get sense at all...

Some of this Boys believes truly na ogwu Ego, that was why many of them are being duped by creative Con Native Doctors with apparels of Ndi Ukochukwu, some call it Ego Mbute which is a Euphemism for Robbery, after all it is somebody else money ka iga Ebute and nobody will hand his wealth to you with clear mind without transactions that benefits both parties. 

If Money ritual work that way, what stopped all the Village truants from making it through that way, as many of them will even use AKU ODO (Pestle) to end life of family member that irked him, so nothing shakes any of them from using one as sacrificial contribution, Infact many will donate entire family for just a Car.

Igbo Films has become a window of Non visiting Members of outside world into the houses and life of Ndigbo, the impression is what they see daily on African Magic , year after year and Movie after movie, you only see Thatch houses made with Red Mud and Rafters, the setting must be with a Wicked King or Cabinet of the King with high effective manipulating spirits..it is always Evil beginning, evil interlude then glorious ending.. Not one differs. 

Ways before Ndigbo got entangled with Movies, in the days of Herbert Ogunde, that have been Yoroba culture in movies and it created into me a phobia that every Yoroba is highly diabolical, that they prefer evil life that righteous living, even when I grew up and lived amongst them, the phobia still dwell at the back of my mind. It takes only grace to erase what was super printed in the mind and Visual is super Printer into minds.. 

What I don't understand is the rational behind such obscure stories, especially one that is century outdated and filled with fallacies built on Utopian lies?.

Unless because it cost extremely less to produce such uncreative movie, I only stood on my legs with excitement after watching LIVING IN BONDAGE  reproduced version, where one can say, THIS IA A MOVIE meant for Millennium, it was a classic of all Movies.

Going back to the eyesore called NOLLYWOOD movies.. 

It under score the growth and transformation of Ndigbo, presents a backward, outdated People of Stone age, then makes other Tribe who has never traveled the Eastern part of Nigeria to assume we have wealth centered on Rituals and Voodism.. Mix same With the  Visuals that is ongoing where we see our Boys engaging on Open Ritual pursuit, we have little to weld as our Exoneration of what they accused us off... 

Most Boys jumped into Yahoo plus which is another branded name for ogwu Ego, little did they know that they just signed pact with Doom, the Devil or the Native Doctor takes your future, your life, that of your families and all the Girls you slept with and give you money for effizy that won't last 5 years before demanding another sacrifice.. All he uses for his own fortification, and little for you who provided the sacrifice.

 Iwelu nkea iriem ego, is old sage and today it has risen again and playing well before our eyes. 

We should know that Hollywood shoot certain Films we consider EPIC, but because of the mindset that they have evolved into greater evolution, everybody consider such movies as make believe and a step into the olden days, but as our own Civilization is still in question, such movies creates into minds what they perceive as Alaigbo of the day.

People address you the way you dress..

Mmadu ekwesiro idi ka onu akoruya, but we struggle to project that we are worse off than speculated.

Our Movie writers should start being real, start writing a projection of Modern, civilized Igbo, send a message to the World that we don't live in crevices any more.

That we don't live in Mud houses but palatial places.

That we don't trek untarred terrain with Loin clothes, but decked on designers.

That we don't steal people's land in the Village, but goes to Lagos, Abuja, Kano and other places, buy up the lands in choice places then build a befitting palaces all over the Nation.

That we went through Business University called physical Housemanship or apprenticeship, which impact us greatly and reward the person larger than any known GLOBAL success manual with what is called or known as Idu UNO (Settlement of the Servant) .

Let the world know, we are the best in anything we set our minds on anywhere in the world, and we make money the World approved trading way, Infact whatever we touch becomes Gold  and we refine same and turn unmerchantable things into Money vending enterprise.

Ohaneze, Youths, Governors, politicians, Ndi Eze, Nze na Ozo should start schooling our people on making the right image for Alaigbo, Maka onye kpoo Obo ya Mkpokolo, Umuazi ewelu ya kpofue Afifia (When one calls his Portfolio Common waste basket, his neighbors will dump trash in it.

I am your Brother,  Last Born Mpa Nnukwu, Mkpisi Ndi Egede, Special Adviser on Good Governance, Mazi Odera POg JP and the Author of many MINORITY Reports and I come with sadness for the ekwem na aka agafe go Obo Aka.