Top 5 Indigenous Movies

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July 23, 2014 2:21 PM

What is your favourite Indigenous Nollywood movie?

Sometimes we love to take a break from the everyday 'English speaking movies' into the non-English speaking movies..

Here we go with our top Indigenous movies which entertained us.

Maami (Yoruba)

The award winning movie from Tunde Kelani tells the story of a desperately poor Single parent, MAAMi, and her young son.

Gifted with a living heart, enterprising spirit and brave soul, she is the centre of her son's world, until he longs for the father he has never known -- a man with a terrible secret.

Unforgivable (Yoruba)

Dayo Amusa's Unforgivable tells the story of a handsome university boy (Desmond Elliot) who has a crush on a fellow undergraduate female student (Dayo Amusa), however lacks the courage to approach her, he gets disappointed when his roommate - a womanizer (Mike Ezuruonye) takes over.

Living in Bondage (Igbo)

The movie which marked the beginning of the movie industry in Nigeriatells the story of a man who joins a secret cult, he kills his wife in a ritual sacrifice to gains enormous wealth as a reward. He is afterwards haunted by the dead wife’s ghost.

Jenifa (Yoruba)

We all loved the entertaining and educating ‘Jenifa’. The movie tells the story of |Suliat' a young ‘village girl’ who is used to being the most popular girl in her home town.

She gains admission to university of Lagos with high expectations but her expectations were cut off as she was constantly ridiculed for her style, accent and manner of speaking.

Her quest for identity drives her to committing different crimes, thus the birth of a new 'Suliat' iin the person of JENIFA.

Kokomma (Ibibio)

The award winning movie tells the story of a pretty young girl 'Kokomma' who has to hawk to support her family. Being a pretty girl, men want to buy more than she is willing to offer.

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