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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 3:41:37 GMT
Why You - AND YOUR CHILDREN- Should Stop Watching Yoruba Movies. I'm going to leave some brief points, I'll be back to explain later. 1. Yoruba culture is not juju culture 2. Yoruba culture is not toutism 3. Yoruba culture doesn't tolerate drug and alcohol abuse 4. Yoruba culture is not evil nor do we plot to do evil unto others 5. Yoruba culture doesn't tolerate rape, child abuse or teenage pregnancy 6. Yoruba culture doesn't tolerate prostitution, nor does it tolerate pimp-ism and sugar-daddy-mamaism 7. Yorubas are highly intelligent people, we put education on the highest pedestal - Yorubawood doesn't show that aspect of Yorubaism 8. Yorubas ain't about quick money, we're hard workers and entrepreneurs - Yorubawood doesn't show us in that light. 10. In Yoruba culture, our older generations aren't witches nor do they plot to do harm unto others. 11. Yoruba culture is religious pluralism, therefore, we must hold tradition religion as high as Islam and Christianity by not demonizing traditional religious practice. Right now, I am pissed off at the nonsense Yoruba movies spout out to our young generation. I've watched about 10 Yoruba movies this weekend and I've seen these same common themes devaluing and degrading the Yoruba culture. We need to let Yorubawood know what is Yoruba culture and what isn't Yoruba cultute. It's one thing for others to attempt to harm our image, but for our own people to attempt the same ish? Hell no! The media is a powerful thing my people. Please add your own Shymmex , Interloper , iyalode , Moffy , OmoOba , Iya Niyen! , Omoluabi , dansoye1 , Belmot , osoronga , Omo Oba of the Source , Her Highness , IrekeOnibudo , ioannes , laudate , oduabachanal , stblack , zaynie , ilaje2015 , omohayek , AgbongboAkala , Ogbeni Ogunnaike , aparo , black , colonial pikin , skylar , cocoafarmer , missy89 , ibk , Merchantt , lontoro , isalegangan , yorumigrant , ajanaku , sholeybanty , ayodejilara , oloyesaso , sakur , ritchiee , mignone , honeychild , Short_Biscuit , amorere , donphilosophy , governor , irewande , isholapecham , ola , olugbenga86 , taiwo , loadofs , ijeshaboy , tomtoxic , imodoye , camronaija , ayekooto , dehinde , fado , scully95 , tunde , ayo , omoba , tallwolleh , mankind , anago , egbaknight , oduastates , atandaniyi , ayxmania , omoolowokanbati , sapiodunamis , blaqcoffee109 , fluteman , olukumi , sesinu , araabeokuta , qreem231 ,
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 3:58:37 GMT
Yoruba culture is not plagiarism
Yorubahood even had the audacity to use Game of Throne theme song in the movie "Lima".
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Post by Omoluabi on Mar 7, 2016 4:12:07 GMT
Yoruba culture is not plagiarism Yorubahood even had the audacity to use Game of Throne theme song in the movie "Lima".Hehehe at the bold. Wan fe so swagger no ni That's why Tunde Kelani and Kunle Afonlayan stand out. Check out films like saworoide, agogo eewo etc to see true Yoruba culture being portrayed even though set in contemporary times. I don't go near Yorubawood again o. The desperation to project "oyinbohood" is so much it makes them look and sound so ridiculous. They spoil the little Yoruba I speak and try to corrupt my English at the same time. You need to see the subtitling. Na die!!!
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 4:43:50 GMT
Yoruba culture is not plagiarism Yorubahood even had the audacity to use Game of Throne theme song in the movie "Lima".Hehehe at the bold. Wan fe so swagger no ni That's why Tunde Kelani and Kunle Afonlayan stand out. Check out films like saworoide, agogo eewo etc to see true Yoruba culture being portrayed even though set in contemporary times. I don't go near Yorubawood again o. The desperation to project "oyinbohood" is so much it makes them look and sound so ridiculous. They spoil the little Yoruba I speak and try to corrupt my English at the same time. You need to see the subtitling. Na die!!! I love those movies, plus Apoti Eri. It's unfortunate that we'll never see Yoruba culture/arts portrayed in such beautiful light again if the trend of pushing out unthoughtful and disrespectful crap called movies continues. @bold, so true. Now they're even speaking YoruEnglish. Like wtf? Why call it Yoruba movie when you're going to speak English 40% of the time? I even speak Yoruba better most of these unpolished actors/actresses. It's quite irritating. @post Yoruba culture is not bleaching culture. The desperation for lightskin women and recognized actresses is real. Now we even have old women bleaching to meet the demand for lightskin women. It's like they're trying to compete with Nollywood tonto dikehs. I've met beautiful darkskin Yoruba women, why showcase some ugly bleached women?
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 4:56:33 GMT
@post
In Yoruba culture, if our children start driving mercedes benz without a consistent revenue source (i.e job, self-owned business etc), we ask questions.
Olorun o ni je ki omo kankan wa shey runz and agberoism o.
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 5:01:52 GMT
@post
In Yoruba culture, Yorubas, esp our women, do not scream unnecessarily to get our point across. We're subtle, disciplined, calm and collected. Yorubawood please stop depicting Yorubas as screaming alligators. Must every angry conversation contain insults i.e oloshi, o si were ni, ode etc?
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Post by ajanaku on Mar 7, 2016 5:03:34 GMT
Iya Hafusa ti binu. I actually love Yoruba films minorly for the entertaining perspective but majorly for the educative one. That's why I'm so selective about it. Count me out of the so-called hip-hop Yoruba films where they speak diluted, bastardized, Lagos Yoruba. I'll rather watch the ones shot in a mud-buildings village setting where the real Yoruba is spoken, where our true religiousness is propagated - Ifa, Ogun, Sango, et al...and where the real Yoruba values and cultures are exhibited. I learn a lot from those films... How I love listening to the Babalawos rendering the Ifa Panegyrics in Yoruba movies. It send shivers down mehn. You're right about Tunde Kelani but I doubt if Afolayan has produced a core Yoruba film. Most of his films are a mix of English and Yoruba. His "October 1st" was a marvel. I love that film. Iya Hafusa, there are very good Yoruba films out there, though not too much, when compared with the nonsense ones. I also disagree with some of your points. Some aspects of Yoruba culture sure promotes Juju. There are a lot of Yoruba Touts on the streets of Lagos. Those guys dey make shame catch me sef. So I'm not surprised when I see some Yoruba films where thuggery and toutism are the main thing. You need to live among Yorubas for a long time to really know we have very evil ones among us...like the stupid Alfa Ile kewu that impregnated Morayo when we were teens. She was barely 14 mehn. That Alfa destroyed that girl's life. Smart Morayo ooo. She know book well well but she never went to the University 'cos of the early pregnancy. Last time I saw her, my eyes were teary. She don turn to Mama. A lot of evils mehn. I can list 20 different cases for you sef. Omo, we get witches sef ooo. I also think most of our films show our traditional religious beliefs, Ifa especially.
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 5:08:54 GMT
ajanaku, mo fe ki e ki n to da e lohun. O tojo meta.....last we spoke, o sope o fun obinrin kan loyun lojo valentine. Mr. Daddy....congrats o. Eku ise, ibon a ta o.
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Post by ajanaku on Mar 7, 2016 5:13:50 GMT
ajanaku , mo fe ki e ki n to da e lohun. O tojo meta.....last we spoke, o sope o fun obinrin kan loyun lojo valentine. Mr. Daddy....congrats o. Eku ise, ibon a ta o. Ojo kan pelu... Bawo ni things? Mo le ro pe o n se daada Igbawo ni mo so fun e pe mo fun obinrin loyun? Oo serious rara! Ere ti mo ba omoge mi se ni ojo Valentine yen ko doyun nitoripe mo ba lo ora idaabobo (condom) Ora idaabobo na o de ja nigba ibasepo wa.
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 5:26:53 GMT
Must we showcase these negatives as Yoruba culture? Yes, we practice "juju" (which in itself has a negative connotation), but in the olden days was it all evil? You had barren mothers praying to Yeye Osun for a child etc. Was it all about killing others and making money from human rituals? Is that all Yoruba traditional religion is caught out to be? Were I not a Yoruba, I'd think our tradition is evil judging by the crap in Yorubawood. They always have a foreign religion (by Alfa, Priest, or Pastor) saving the Yoruba religion. Don't you understand how we've devalued ourselves? It's so bad now that I always mute my TV when I babalawo starts speaking incantations because I no wan something to spiritually hit me o.
Instead of parading toutism as a normality, why can't we focus on how to eradicate toutism in the movies? Can't we focus on hardworkers? Can't we plot a scene where an unemployed graduate legally works hard to own his own business? Does positivism not sell again?
As for the Alfa, we can plot a movie that can discourage rape, educate our children and parents on how to report them, and how to penalize the suspect legally. All I'm saying is that we can fix the problems in the SW with our media tools too. We can even encourage "YorubaParapo-ism" through nollywood movies. Saworoide was a political tool, I'm sure you know.
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 5:32:33 GMT
ajanaku , mo fe ki e ki n to da e lohun. O tojo meta.....last we spoke, o sope o fun obinrin kan loyun lojo valentine. Mr. Daddy....congrats o. Eku ise, ibon a ta o. Ojo kan pelu... Bawo ni things? Mo le ro pe o n se daada Igbawo ni mo so fun e pe mo fun obinrin loyun? Oo serious rara! Ere ti mo ba omoge mi se ni ojo Valentine yen ko doyun nitoripe mo ba lo ora idaabobo (condom) Ora idaabobo na o de ja nigba ibasepo wa. Mo n se dada egbon mi. E seun. @bolded Thanks for the information. I don't even know what all that means (pure mind). This guy, o ti feran oru ere yen ju. Haba.
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Post by Honorebu on Mar 7, 2016 5:32:56 GMT
Lol when me I don dey fall in love with Yoruba movies even tho I skip like 85%
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 5:37:18 GMT
Lol when me I don dey fall in love with Yoruba movies even tho I skip like 85% Same here. They can spend a good 5 minutes capturing a car's tire. Please which movies are you watching? I've been watching the most recent ones and they're so whack.
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Post by Honorebu on Mar 7, 2016 5:47:20 GMT
Lol when me I don dey fall in love with Yoruba movies even tho I skip like 85% Same here. They can spend a good 5 minutes capturing a car's tire. Please which movies are you watching? I've been watching the most recent ones and they're so whack. Hehehe I watched Aturota on Tuesday and on friday I watched Alade Owala part 2 after weeks of procastination I tried searching for the name of the third one I watched on friday night but I couldn't find it
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Post by Her Highness on Mar 7, 2016 5:50:30 GMT
Same here. They can spend a good 5 minutes capturing a car's tire. Please which movies are you watching? I've been watching the most recent ones and they're so whack. Hehehe I watched Aturota on Tuesday and on friday I watched Alade Owala part 2 after weeks of procastination I tried searching for the name of the third one I watched on friday night but I couldn't find it Could you do all of us a favor by posting good Yoruba movies on this forum? Good movies as in, plot ti o make sense ni o. I don't want to watch movies about sugardaddies, sugadaddy senator, love etc. I'd like movies with strong children roles like "Oritoke". We need more children to act. Awon omo wa ni ojo ola.
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