{"id":6767,"date":"2014-03-17T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2014-03-17T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:58:03","slug":"patience-ozokwor-calls-for-support-for-ghanaian-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/patience-ozokwor-calls-for-support-for-ghanaian-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience Ozokwor calls for support for Ghanaian filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6768\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MAMA-G-Africanmoviesnews-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6768\" alt=\" Patience Ozokwor\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MAMA-G-Africanmoviesnews-1-300x288.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MAMA-G-Africanmoviesnews-1-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MAMA-G-Africanmoviesnews-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Patience Ozokwor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Popular Nigerian actress Patience Ozokwor aka Mama G has called for support and encouragement for local Ghanaian movie producers.<\/p>\n<p>Her reason is because they are doing well producing movies in the indigenous language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad things are changing in Africa, where Ghana is taking steps to use and trade with its local language through movies. Bollywood is second when it comes to movie making in the world. They use their local language to shoot, which tells you that it\u2019s not bad for an industry to use local language to shoot movies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen one makes mistakes in English, the whole country laughs at the person, but we forget it\u2019s not our language, but rather it\u2019s the white man who forced us to learn it; so if Africa needs to grow, one of the things we can grow with is our language,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Nollywood actress is currently in Ghana shooting a Kumawood movie. She spoke to journalists after the screening of the new movie titled \u2018Sundiata.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to her, after watching the movie \u2018Sundiata,\u2019 she concluded the producers needed to be encouraged. \u2018Sundiata\u2019 tells the story of a chief\u2019s wife who struggled many years to give birth to a baby boy, but their joy was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: News-One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian actress Patience Ozokwor aka Mama G has called for support and encouragement for local Ghanaian movie producers. 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