Nigerians Should Know More About Their Ancestors – Yul Edochie

Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has come out to blast Nigerians who know everything about bible characters but have little or no knowledge about their ancestors.

He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, it is sad to see how we have all brainwashed to know everything about bible characters like Moses, Jacob and Isaac, while we barely know anything about the exploits of our grandfathers and great people in our lineage.

Yul added that if we don’t know who we are and where we are coming from, we’ll never know where we are heading to.

His words, “We have all been brainwashed to know everything about Moses, Jacob, Isaac and the people of Israel yet we know nothing about our ancestors, we know nothing about the exploits of our grandfathers, grandmothers & all the great people in our lineage.

Big shame on all of us.

If you don’t know who you’re and where you’re coming from you’ll never know where you’re heading to.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates 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 to 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.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.