Nollywood actress Aisha Lawal says Yoruba actors and filmmakers ‘own Nollywood’ because ‘they started it.’
In an interview with Tribune, the filmmaker said; “We own the industry. Go back to research. The industry belongs to the Yoruba people. If you back to research, you will hear from people like Hubert Ogunde and Ade Love.
I don’t want to go into details but, if you go and research very well, you will discover that Yorubas own this industry, we started the Nollywood industry.
We messed up at some point, but we are not playing catch-up. We are there already. Now, everybody wants to shoot a Yoruba movie.”
