About
twenty years ago Nigerian movie industry otherwise known as Nollywood,
kicked off themes of witchcraft, ritualism and greed that dominated some
of the early movies.
While
today, the practice has shifted and lovers of the country’s films are
helplessly being compelled to watch obscéne movies which promotes
immorality and cultures that are alien to us as Africans.
Indeed, recent survey has shown that pórnographic movies are increasingly taking over Nollywood.
Ardent
followers of the recent development in the industry would have noticed
the disturbing increase in the degree of núdity portrayed in some of the
recent Nollywood flicks.
Regrettably, Nollywood actors have thrown caution to the wind as they now venture into hard core pórnographic roles.
The
internet, and particularly YouTube, is not helping matters as it is one
avenue frenquently used by these desperate, and materialistic soft-pron
producers to gain wide popularity for such obscéne movies.
Until
recently, the production of sóft-pórn movies only thrives in
Ghana. They were considered bold enough to engage in séxually suggestive
roles.
This,
however, paved the way for the popularity of Ghollywood movies in the
country, as Nigerians, out of curiosity, patronized Ghanaian films just
to see how far they were willing to go with this obscénity.
But
today, the story has changed. Nollywood practitioners who have been
very conservative when it comes to displaying séx and núdity on screen,
are now leading the way with the production of pórnographic movies.
Some
of the soft-pórn movies that have flooded the Nigerian and African
markets in the past few years includes: The Benjamins, Greedy Séx, Room
027, Another Game of Men, Bold 5 Babes, Bedroom Assassins, All My
Ladies, My Pretty Angel, Take My Wife (Pretty Wild Things), Pool Party
and I slept with My Bosses Wife.
Interestingly,
the production of gáy movies are also on the increase. Last year,
popular producer Dickson Iroegbu, released a gáy movie, "Law 58" where
Kanyo starred.
O.Kanyo,
who played the lead character, Clarion Chukwurah, Halima Abubakar,
Ghanaian actor, Kofi Adjorlolo, Mark Morris, Chibueze, and other
Nollywood stars.
Also,
gáy movies like, Pregnant Hawkers, Sinful Act 1&2 and also a Yoruba
movie, titled, "Lésbian" were also released into the market.
Still
on soft-pórn movies, the most recent of these hardcore pórn movies is
"Destructive Instincts", produced recently and starring Nigerian born
American actress cum producer, Judith Opara Mazagwu popularly known as
Afro Candy.
In
the movie, Afro Candy played the role of a seductive mistress, with a
steamy séx scene where a male actor was grappling her bare bréasts and
búttocks.
Her
boldness and unrepentant attitude about her act was attested to when
she took to her facebook page asking for actors who could act núde roles
and are interested in being a part of her production to get in touch
with her.
Shortly
after the noise about Afrocandy and the lewd scenes, another soft-pórn
movie, "The “Benjamins" surfaced with its trailer.
The
movie produced by Charles Smooth X Edegbe and directed by Temple
Chinedum is a high class campus movie based on rap music and love.
According to some critics, the movie isn’t worth releasing because, it was a sheer display of obscénity and mediocrity.
However,
it is on record that soft pórn movies started flooding Nigerian movie
markets about two years ago, when controversial actress, Tonto Dike
starred in "Strippers in Love", a soft-pórn movie produced by Divine
Touch Productions.
Scenes from the movie showed Tonto kissing another female cast and x-rated scenes with another actor.
She
had earlier starred in "Dirty Secrets". Apparently, with these kinds of
unholy movies dominating the Nigerian movie space, questions are being
asked today regarding the future of Nollywood.
Many
people are of the opinion that the current trend which must be
discouraged remains a degradation of values that we hold as Africans
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