Nkem Owoh

Nkem Owoh is a Nigerian actor and comedian. In 2008 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Early life

Owoh was born in Enugu, Nigeria. After his primary and secondary school he headed to the University of Ilorin and studied engineering. Already during his university studies, Owoh began acting in various television and film productions.

Career

Owoh starred in the 2003 film Osuofia in London. He is also known for performing the song "I Go Chop Your Dollar" about advance fee fraud. The song was featured in the film The Master in which Owoh plays a scammer. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission banned the song. In 2007 Owoh was arrested in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Bijlmermeer neighborhood in the Amsterdam Zuidoost borough) as the result of a 7-month investigation by the Dutch police dubbed "Operation Apollo". Owoh was arrested while performing a musical show when the police raided the event and arrested 111 people on suspicion of lottery fraud and immigration violations. Owoh was later released. In November 2009 Owoh was kidnapped in eastern Nigeria. His kidnappers demanded a 15 million naira ransom. Owoh was released after his family members allegedly paid a ransom fee of 1.4 million naira.

Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to the industry of films and filmmaking or to the art of filmmaking itself. The contemporary definition of cinema is the art of simulating experiences to communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty or atmosphere by the means of recorded or programmed moving images along with other sensory stimulations.

The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry.

Nollywood Movies

Nollywood Movies (or Nollywood as it appears on the EPG) is a subscription movie television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom on the Sky, Virgin media and TalkTalk Plus TV platforms. Each month the channel offers over 30 different new and recently released Nigerian movies, 24-hours-a-day. It is the first such channel in operation in the UK. Films offered are primarily in English, with some subtitled, in genres including drama, comedy, romance, family, thriller, traditional, fantasy and true story films. The channel is funded through subscription and advertising.

As of June 2014, along with several other international channels, Nollywood Movies is available on TalkTalk Plus TV channel 477. The channel is part of the African TV Boost.

External links

What is Nollywood?

The History of Nollywood

Official site

Nigerians

Nigerians or Nigerian people are citizens and/or people with ancestry from Nigeria. Nigeria is composed of multiple ethnic groups and cultures and the term Nigerian refers to a citizenship-based civic nationality. Nigerians derive from over 250 ethnic groups and languages. Though there are multiple ethnic groups in Nigeria, economic factors result in significant mobility of Nigerians of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds to reside in territories in Nigeria that are outside their ethnic or religious background, resulting in the intermixing of the various ethnic and religious groups, especially in Nigeria's cities. The English language is the lingua franca of Nigerians. About 50 percent of Nigerians are Muslims and the other 50 percent are Christians.

Nigerians come from multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds as the creation of Nigeria was the result of a colonial creation by the British Empire that did not correlate with ethnic and religious boundaries.

There have been several major historical states in Nigeria that have influenced Nigerian society via their strong kings and their advanced legal and taxation systems, and the use of religion to legitimize the power of the king and to unite the people. Northern Nigeria has been culturally influenced by Islamic influence including several major historic Islamic states in the region. The Kanem-Bornu Empire and the Sokoto Caliphate were major historical Islamic states in northern Nigeria. Southern Nigeria historically held several powerful states, including the Benin Empire and Oyo Empire, Ife Empire and several other Yoruba states.

Cinema of Nigeria

The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to as Nollywood, consists of films produced in Nigeria; its history dates back to as early as the late 19th century and into the colonial era in early 1900s. The history and development of the Nigerian motion picture industry is sometimes generally classified in four main eras: the Colonial era, Golden Age, Video film era and the emerging New Nigerian cinema.

Film as a medium first arrived Nigeria in the late 19th century, in the form of peephole viewing of motion picture devices. These were soon replaced in early 20th century with improved motion picture exhibition devices, with the first set of films screened at the Glover Memorial Hall in Lagos from 12 to 22 August 1903. The earliest feature film made in Nigeria is the 1926's Palaver produced by Geoffrey Barkas; the film was also the first film ever to feature Nigerian actors in a speaking role As at 1954, mobile cinema vans played to atleast 3.5 million people in Nigeria, and films being produced by the Nigerian Film Unit were screened for free at the 44 available cinemas. The first film entirely copyrighted to the Nigerian Film unit is Fincho (1957) by Sam Zebba; which is also the first Nigerian film to be shot in colour.

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Owoh, Nkem Filmography

Play in Full Screen Shattered Mirror

2012, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Shattered Mirror 2

2012, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Forgive Me Father

2009, role: actor , character name: John Bosco
Play in Full Screen Wonderful Man

2008, role: actor
Play in Full Screen His Last Action

2008, role: actor
Play in Full Screen His Holiness

2008, role: actor
Play in Full Screen His Holiness 2

2008, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Osuofia and the Wise Men 2

2008, role: actor , character name: Osuofia
Play in Full Screen His Last Action 2

2008, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Osuofia and the Wise Men

2008, role: actor , character name: Osuofia
Play in Full Screen Wonderful Man 2

2008, role: actor
Play in Full Screen De prof

2007, role: actor
Play in Full Screen De prof 2

2007, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Stronger Than Pain

2007, role: actor , character name: Ulonna
Play in Full Screen Persecution 2

2007, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Battle of Indemnity

2007, role: actor , character name: Egbentu
Play in Full Screen Battle of Indemnity 2

2007, role: actor , character name: Egbentu
Play in Full Screen Persecution

2007, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Stronger Than Pain 2

2007, role: actor , character name: Ulonna
Play in Full Screen Johnbull & Rosekate 2

2007, role: actor , character name: Johnbull
Play in Full Screen Johnbull & Rosekate

2007, role: actor , character name: Johnbull
Play in Full Screen Covenant Keeping God

2007, role: actor , character name: Samuel
Play in Full Screen Covenant Keeping God 2

2007, role: actor , character name: Samuel
Play in Full Screen Indemnity

2006, role: actor , character name: Egbentu
Play in Full Screen A Fool at 40 2

2006, role: actor , character name: Hygenius
Play in Full Screen Captain

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Captain 2

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Captain 3

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Foreign Base

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen A Fool at 40

2006, role: actor , character name: Hygenius
Play in Full Screen Indemnity 2

2006, role: actor , character name: Egbentu
Play in Full Screen Made in Cambridge

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Made in Cambridge 2

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen My Kingdom Come

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen My Kingdom Come 2

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen My Kingdom Come 3

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen The Barrister

2006, role: actor , character name: Athanasius
Play in Full Screen The Barrister 2

2006, role: actor , character name: Athanasius
Play in Full Screen The Dreamer

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen The Dreamer 2

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen The Dreamer 3

2006, role: actor
Play in Full Screen The Prince

2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Akanchawa: Final Part

2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Akanchawa 2

2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen The Prince 2

2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Bus Driver 2

2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Bus Driver

2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Akanchawa

2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen My Driver

2004, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Osuofia in London 2

2004, role: actor

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Nacho Mama, Joe Ely

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Nacho Mama

The doors flew back and in they came
A tough bunch of cowboys, thirsty
They said to the waitress, "Honey what's your name?
Mama, won'cha bring us whiskey?"
The waitress [Incomprehensible]
Her eyes rolled in her head
And no one took a single breath
When she turned to them and said
She said, "I'm nacho mama, nacho mama
Nacho mama, nacho girl
I didn't bring you into this world
I'm nacho mama, no'cho mama"
The wild bunch rode on down the line
To some cafe on the Pedernales
They said to the waitress, "Honey, what's your name
Mama, won'cha bring us tamales?"
The waitress raised her fly swatter high
Her new tattoo did show
It was Napoleon with a big black eye
And she was lettin' everybody know
I'm nacho mama, nacho mama
I'm nacho mama, nacho girl
I didn't bring you into this world
I'm nacho mama, nacho mama
The wild bunch rode on down the line
Sidesaddle to their saddlebags
They crossed their legs and laughed all night
You see, the wild bunch was in drag
They sang, "I'm nacho mama
Nacho mama
I'm nacho mama, I'm nacho girl
I didn't bring you into this world
I'm nacho mama, nacho mama
I'm nacho mama, I'm nacho girl
I didn't bring you into this world
I'm nacho mama, nacho mama

photo: AP / Alex Brandon