Yoruba Started Home Video, Not Nollywood, Osuofia Says

Nigerian actor Nkem Owoh, known as Osuofia, said on Curiosity Made Me Ask that Yoruba filmmakers popularised home-video productions in Nigeria but did not start Nollywood. He said the name “Nollywood” was chosen later, after filmmakers gathered to discuss how the industry would develop. Owoh named Hubert Ogunde and Adebayo Papa among the Yoruba artists whose work he admired, amid renewed debate over Yoruba and Igbo contributions following comments by actor Francis Duru.