‘Yoruba did not start Nollywood’: Osuofia sets the record straight on film history

Nigerian actor Nkem Owoh, known as Osuofia, says he never claimed that Yoruba people started Nollywood. He explains that the name did not exist when early filmmakers began making films and was adopted later. Owoh credits Yoruba filmmakers, particularly veteran filmmaker Hubert Ogunde, with starting and popularizing Nigeria’s home-video tradition.