Someone sent me the message below this morning, bemoaning what he called the "perpetuat[ion of] primitive stereotype by Nollywood.
"Dear Sir,
I would like to make a comment on a new movie going
round in Nollywood. Please permit me a space to make this short commentary on
the new Nollywood movie, "Nkoli Nwa Nsukka":
I am from Nsukka and I speak from a deep-seated
cultural resentment: There is a very disturbing movie going round "Nkoli
Nwa Nsukka". Most of us think it is a comedy or even a slapstick!
Yet, intelligent ones would easily recognize this
brutal attempt to dehumanize and perpetuate primitive stereotype of Nsukka
people by way of comic parody and cultural travesty. I find it disturbing,
disgusting and in the least unpalatable that even some Nksa people are
re-posting this charade instead of challenging this assumption.
There has always been this historical need to look
down on people from Nsukka as the least or among the least civilized or
cultured people of Igbo Land. Our people have continued to perpetuate this
stereotype by trying to speak central Igbo even at Ashua Og’ge Nska.
Now, Agbaelu people have succeeded to immortalize this
stereotype as the true image of our people, hence, “Nwa Nsukka” is synonymous
with an “uncivilized” people.
