Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has come out to urge Yoruba people to learn to use English language while fighting online. She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, she needs them to communicate in the language everyone understands because as violence prefect, she has to know which party is winning the fight when it goes down online.
Tonto added that Ghanaians are in that WhatsApp group too because they love quarrelling mainly in their language.
Her words, “Dear Yoruba people, Abeg, when una dey try to fight (especially for this Obasanjo app), make una try dey fight with English.
“How we want take know who dey win fight.
“Ghana people una dey this Whatsapp group too.
Make una they fight with English.
All love from a vawulence prefect.”
WOW.
Nollywood, a portmanteau of Nigeria and Hollywood, is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry.
The origin of the term goes back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject of several controversies.
The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema. Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times.
The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.
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