Category: Nollywood – Yoruba
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Murtala Sule: Film maker and presenter of NTA 7 popular Sunday television programme, Lagbo Video. Murtala left secondary school in 1973 and joined LatdaFilms to learn film making. Murtala Sule went to University of Nigeria Nsukka from where he passed out with a Mass Communication degree, had worked with the Information Ministry for five years…
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Nollywood; is the often criticized but common expression for the Nigerian film industry. Nigerian movies are seen as the pivot of a developing African film industry and the cultural mainstay of Africans in the continent and the Diaspora. Nigeria has not been able to win major awards on the international stage yet it is the…
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Peju Ogunmola; Nollywood actress of the Yoruba genre is the daughter of Kola Ogunmola, one of Hubert Ogunde‘s contemporaries. Peju got her first role as Kadara in Ade Love in 1979, during her secondary school days. And in 1982 a role was scripted for her as Pero in Jaiyesimi by Hubert Ogunde. Then in 1983,…
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Taslim Olaniyan Atanda Olatunde; Actor in the Yoruba genre of nollyowod. Olaniyan was born on March 3 1939 at Ibadan (Oyo) into an average family. He began acting from school after having seen elder brother, Kola who had gone into acting in 1962. He went to the University of Ibadan where he obtained a Diploma…
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Akinleye Larinde; Film actor whose performance as Alagba in Koseegbe, Chief Seriki Saworoide, Vice Principal in Thunderbolt and Akinkunmi in Bashorun Gaa, which was yet to be released at the time of his death, established him as a theatre icon[i]. Larinde Akinleye was born at Ipapo, Itesiwaju Local Government of Oyo State on August 2.…
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Jimoh Aliu; Actor and producer. In 1991, Aliu was the first Nigerian to present a Yoruba film at the Rio Cinema, London. Following this, he also released Arelu and Yanponyanrin. Arelu was such a success that the streets would be deserted when it was time to air it. Born November 11, 1936, Aliu was just…
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Tunde Kelani; Nigerian cinematographer. Using the vehicle of films and home video movies with Ti Oluwa. Nile 1 & 2, Kosegbe, Ote ku I & 2 and others, Kelani’s Mainframe began a renaissance in the promotion of Yoruba culture at more elevated rather than a pedestrian level, usually informed by crass commercialisation evidenced In the…
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Kunle Afolayan; Nigerian Film maker who as son of his thespian father took up the gauntlet from where the elder dramatist left it, venturing after seven years as a bank staff into the movie industry. Kunle was auditioned by Biodun Aleja and Tunde Kelani who had worked with his father in the past, and through…
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Adebayo Salami popularly known as Oga Bello was born 9 May 1953 in Agege to parents from Kwara State. Growing up in Okepopo of Lagos Island, he attended Ansarudeen school Okepopo, Adebodun Commercial School and later, Lagos Drama School which was then affiliated to University of Lagos. All the time Adebayo Salami was schooling he…