A Nollywood interest group known
as The Igbo Film Forum has established a centre called for the promotion of
culture.
Known as Nollywood Cultural
Centre, the group head, Chief (Dr) Harris Chuma said the initiative is to
promote the rich culture of Nigeria.
According to Chuma who is called Ogene Ndigbo, the Igbo Film Forum is a socio-cultural organisation charged with the mandate of promoting, preserving and propagating the Igbo culture using Nollywood as a veritable medium.
He also revealed that the organisation would hold the first Ndigbo in Nollywood New Yam Festival, which would also be used to launch a N50 million fund raising campaign for the establishment of the centre September 28, 2013 in Lagos.
He states that: “Nollywood has registered its presence on the world stage with an assertiveness that cannot be ignored. The central to its evolutionary process is the initiative taken by producer of Igbo extraction in pioneering the industry. In Nollywood, other ethnicities are using the medium to promote language, preserve and propagate their cultures while the Igbo, who are among the pioneers, are unrepentantly silent and playing deaf to their language and culture, which is being eroded. We need to arrest this very ugly situation urgently. The sure way of ensuring the survival of Igbo language is to produce more of films in our dialects, and also, active promotion of Igbo cultural heritage,” Chuma said
According to Chuma who is called Ogene Ndigbo, the Igbo Film Forum is a socio-cultural organisation charged with the mandate of promoting, preserving and propagating the Igbo culture using Nollywood as a veritable medium.
He also revealed that the organisation would hold the first Ndigbo in Nollywood New Yam Festival, which would also be used to launch a N50 million fund raising campaign for the establishment of the centre September 28, 2013 in Lagos.
He states that: “Nollywood has registered its presence on the world stage with an assertiveness that cannot be ignored. The central to its evolutionary process is the initiative taken by producer of Igbo extraction in pioneering the industry. In Nollywood, other ethnicities are using the medium to promote language, preserve and propagate their cultures while the Igbo, who are among the pioneers, are unrepentantly silent and playing deaf to their language and culture, which is being eroded. We need to arrest this very ugly situation urgently. The sure way of ensuring the survival of Igbo language is to produce more of films in our dialects, and also, active promotion of Igbo cultural heritage,” Chuma said
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