Lasun Alagbe
Actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde has identified Nollywood as being a big brother to afrobeats because it introduced entertainment in Nigeria to the world before the latter.
The seasoned actress, who has been working in the film industry for more than 20 years, released clips from a number of epic Nollywood films, including Yankee Girls, Games Women Play, Blood Sisters, All My Life, and Kosorogun.
Omotola shared the clips which also have Genevieve Nnaji, Stella Damasus and Rita Dominic in them, stating that someone sent her the videos and it was nostalgic.
The mother of four accompanied the videos with a caption on the pivotal role of how Nollywood introduced Nigeria to the world before the coming in of afrobeats.
She asserts that, before the popularity of afrobeats, Nollywood, despite its lack of social media and modest quality, presented Nigeria to the world.
Then Omotola Jalade challenged her followers to name any movies they could recognise from the snippets she had provided.
She wrote: “Someone sent me some of these vids and it was nostalgic…..lol. Despite the not-so-good quality… No social media…these movies broke barriers… Way before afrobeats we introduced Nigerian entertainment to the world. We still.”
