Nollywood and Renewed Season of Royalty

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(All Africa)--About 15 years ago, more than 80 per cent of the movies that were being churned out on a weekly basis, were all 'epic' films.

In case you have no understanding what an epic film in Nigeria film tradition otherwise called Nollywood is, let me give you an insight. A movie that was shot on location in a typical village with mud houses and all the characters wear sack clothes and walk bare footed. It is always about some gods (then Amadioha, Orisi Iyi, Sango and Ogun among other not too popular gods) fighting for or against the people. It was fashioned in the tradition of the Greek theatre-deus ex machina-where issues are resolved by the gods.