Nollywood Actor, Kanayo O kanayo, has claimed seniority over older colleague, Pete Edochie in Nollywood industry.
Kanayo, Nnanyi sacrifice, as he’s often called made the claim in a recent interview where he spoke on the history of the industry with reference to the first professionally produced home video; Living in Bondage.
Pete Edochie, according to him, was already into acting prior to that time, but wasn’t into home video but cinema.
“I hope I won’t be written out of the history when it’s told or the story when it’s told of Nollywood.
“You can’t take it away from those who took part in ‘Living in Bondage’, just like you can’t take it away from the fact that ‘Things Fall Apart’ which Pete Edochie took part in was not a home video. It was a cinema.
“So if you write a story now and say Pete Edochie is older than me in Nollywood, I will contest it because he came four years after. So in Nollywood I’m his senior. It is not a matter of biological age.
“So, when it comes to cinema, of course, then you start going to Baba Hubert Ogunde in 1940s or 1950s. This is history. History has no romanticism.” He said.
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