Misinformation on Nigeria and Misrepresentation of Nigerians in Hollywood Movies
There have been misinformation on Nigeria and misrepresentation of Nigerians in Hollywood movies. But it is pathetic that, Nigerian actors were paid for their misinformation and misrepresentation of Nigeria and Nigerians in such movies as "The Bourne Identity", 2002 action-thriller with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as "Nykwana Wombosi".
No educated Nigerian Yoruba would speak with such accent and speaking the Yoruba language like a stranger from another tribe. And is Nykwana Wombosi a Yoruba name for him to speak Yoruba?
In "The Woman King" 2022 historical film about the Agojie, the all-female warriors of the kingdom of Dahomey during their wars against the Oyo Empire in
the 1820s, there was annoying misinformation and misrepresentation of the Oyo Empire with Jimmy Odukoya as General Oba Ade Oyo in an attire
that was not the way the soldiers of the army of the Oyo Empire dressed during that period and there was no sign of the famous calvary of the empire in "The Woman King". Showing the soldiers scampering in fear of explosions of gunpowder was ridiculous and exposed the ignorance and poor research of the producers of the film.
Misinformation and misrepresentation have done collateral damages to the history and knowledge of the facts of civilization.
- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series,
First book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry.
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