I remember back in the day when music industry in
Nigeria was at its lowest level, you would never hear a Nigerian artist’s song
in the background of any youth club or show, it was Foreign music the likes of
Busta Rhymes, Sisqo, DMX and the rest of them that was trending back in those
days.
You can even barely hear it on the radio, but today Nigerian music
industry have taken a giant leap, it has grown so massively that you can never
hear a foreign song playing in the background of any Nigerian club whether home
or abroad, even on radio and streets is strictly Naija jamz everywhere you go.
Did the music industry had to ban the importation of
foreign music before they worked out their weaknesses? No they worked hard on
the improvement of their music productions. Music industry is where talented
individual artists work hard independently away from politics and envy to
create a quality product, no approval from one unnecessary government or
organizational regulatory body of some sort. If the music is good enough to the
people’s ear, it sells itself by itself.
The problem with any organization where politics is
been played in is that the industry remains stagnant, an industry where
producers and directors will exchange sex for roles, they consider talent as
someone who’s good looking and has all the physical build ups, whether the
person is dumb or not.
What hinders the progress of Nollywood is that the
production of movies depends on their collective efforts and contributions made
by members of the movie casts, producers, directors etc, the more people involved
in a project in Nigeria the more the politics involved, and the moment politics
enters a project, corruption will also be involved and that industry becomes
stagnant.
It’s really saddening that a man as smart and
exposed as former actor, Hon. Desmond Elliot thinks that it will do the
Nigerian movie industry a huge better if the Importation of foreign movies is
banned. Nigeria is an exposed country and not some primitive nation where
everything passes for ban whenever one in power feels frustrated and wants to impose
their law on the citizen by force. Ban is not going to solve your problem because
people interested in seeing foreign movies will still find a way to get them.
If they are serious about improving that industry,
they should learn from the music industry and rid themselves of the corruption
in their industry. They should improve the quality of their acting and
productions, no one wants to watch an under budgeted movies anymore where they
struggle to keep their audience a particular lower level of intelligence with
their dragging scenes even when their audience are ahead of them, they never get
out of their little thinking boxes to find out what their audience really want,
they will just continue recycling old movies.
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