Nigerian Filmmaker, Rita Onwurah Decries Treatment Of Nigerian Movie Marketers In Ghana

Onwurah mentioned this whereas reacting to Ghanaian singers, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy, who had criticized Nigerians for not reciprocating the love proven to them by Ghana.

Rita Onwurah, a Nigerian filmmaker, on Friday decried the therapy of Nigerian film entrepreneurs in Ghana, as she claimed that the Ghanaian entrepreneurs refuse to pay after promoting films.

Onwurah mentioned this whereas reacting to Ghanaian singers, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy, who had criticized Nigerians for not reciprocating the love proven to them by Ghana.

Narrating an ordeal, Onwurah wrote, "Couldn't even promote your DVDs in Ghana immediately as a Nigerian marketer/ distributor. You'd need to get a Ghanaian marketer, redesign and reprint new DVD jackets with the marketer's firm named as a distributor, to promote. And people ones will promote your movies & owe you for months.

"That's why this whole 'kwolu anyi n'azu' (carry us on the back) their music artistes are doing, is as ridiculous as it is annoying. If the tables were turned, they would've accused Nigerian artists of wanting to colonise their industry and kicked them out."

Responding to Stonebwoy's assertion in opposition to Nigerians earlier, the filmmaker had mentioned, "I'm wondering if you guys would do same if it were the other way round. Because I'm willing to place a bet and say 'no'."

She added, "Humorous seeing their musicians all entitled and demanding. Once I can nonetheless keep in mind what their film producers/ entrepreneurs did to their Nollywood counterparts.

"They're mad. Why do you think our actors/ actresses hardly feature in their movies? Those guys are pretty rich with their entitlement when it's very clear that they'll do worse if the tables were turned."