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Ghanaian Actors Turned Producers Talk About What Motivated Them to Venture into Movie Production | Are Their Reasons Plausible?

Kafui Danku
Kafui Danku

It’s natural for every human being to desire to progress in life. In every profession, a great number of people strive very hard to climb the success ladder—as it is with other professions, so it is with the movie industry.

The new crop of actors we currently have are transitioning from being just actors to producers – working behind the scenes more often. This new challenge has raised quite a number of questions.

Many are of the view that actors who venture into production are the ones who are not getting desire roles; therefore they set off with their own productions and cast themselves.

It should be noted that actors like Charlie Chaplin, Mel Gibson, and others all evolved from their roles as actors to producers and directors so it’s not all that new when Ghanaian actors ply the same route. However, the market structures of Hollywood, Bollywood, and other movie industries are completely different from ours.

At a time when our movie industry (Ghollywood to be specific) seems to be on the verge of collapsing, it is the same time that quite a number of Ghanaian actors are diverting their attention from acting to producing and directing their own movies.

We have seen the likes of Van Vicker, Eddy Nartey, Kafui Danku, Nadia Buari, Juliet Ibrahim, Lydia Forson, Yvonne Nelson, Ama K. Abebrese, Nana Ama McBrown, Yvonne Okoro and others produce their own movies.

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MUST WATCH VIDEOS: Is EBOLA Man Made?…The DEBATE

Is Ebola Man Made?
Is Ebola Man Made?

It looks like things have moved out of the conspiracy world to a corner where certain well educated Africans and African-Americans like Dr. Randy Short are more than certain that EBOLA was created the USA government—and they claim to have documents/patent papers to back their assertion.

In a recent debate (4th October) on Press TV, the question; is EBOLA Man made was considered and it is definitely a must watch.

Interestingly, instead of the United States’ President-Barrack Obama deploying doctors to Africa to help fight EBOLA, he has deployed thousands of troops—making people ask; what for?

After watching the videos, tell us what you think. Do you believe this new EBOLA was created by the US government? And what have you heard so far from other sources or debates?

Watch the videos below…

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Time to Let Go the WEAVE? | Some Weaves From China to Africa Contain ‘Goat Hair’

Weave

These days societal prestige somehow inexplicably has become tied up with the cost of your weave-on. I don’t know when or how it started, but that is the norm these days and our ladies never shy away from getting the most expensive weave they can get their hands on.

Whilst better people than me have gone on rants about how we can tie all our self worth into the type of (other people’s) hair we can put on our head, it seems now to keep up with the insatiable demands of the business, people in China have resorted to adding goat hair to the weaves they export to Africa.

The BBC made a whole report on it, which confirms that goat hair is now a crucial ingredient in the weave-on industry down there. The merchants who buy it and bring it down here to sell know, but they buy it anyway because of the market for it; and I suspect most of us down here also know, or at the very least suspect, but buy anyway.

Unsurprisingly, it also confirmed that Africa is the biggest hair market now. One shopkeeper said most of their business used to be with Europe; now, almost exclusively African buyers.

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Big Brother Hotshots Shower Hour Update: Sheilah From Botswana Shows ALL Her Goods to All of Africa

Sheilah Big Brother Africa
Sheilah Big Brother Africa

We all love Big Brother shower hour. Mainly because we get to peep at a bit of the n*kedness of some of our favourite housemates and feed our eyes on a bit of their goodies. I know because I do this with the guys. Those I have crushes on. I watch till midnight just so they can get careless and show me small.

I am however not too keen on seeing it all so I was shocked to see Sheila bare it all in the shower without a single care. The b*oty too is big! She even had a guy, Nigeria’s Tayo bathing right next to her. My goodness!

She could have even kept her panty on, covered up a little or kept herself in one position that covers her a little. I am tempted to think this was so deliberate because she kept turning around for us to see it all very well and viewers across Africa must have indeed feasted their eyes.

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BIG BROTHER HOTSHOTS: Resa & Mira Evicted

Resa & Mira Evicted
Resa & Mira Evicted

Zambia’s Resa and Mozambique’s Mira became the first two housemates to be evicted from Big Brother Hotshots on Sunday 12 October, after the first week which saw the housemates going all-out to impress the continent with their Hotshot talents.

All the housemates, excluding Laveda, who won the title of Head of House after scoring highest with the studio audience during the talent show, were up for eviction this week. Africa voted, and with twelve housemates failing to win a country vote, the tie-breaker rule came into effect. The end result, independently verified by auditors SizweNtsalubaGobodo, was that Resa and Mira had drawn the least support from the continent, and were sent home.

It was a busy first week, with the housemates getting to know each other and delving into their first challenges. They won their first task advertising their Hotshots talents with posters, impressing Big Brother with their skills. Cliques formed, the first signs of mischief caused a stir and some housemates got quite close. Mira planted kisses on Luis and Nhlanhla during the very first party and Idris and Goitse hooked up just about immediately, though they’re playing it cool.

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‘Double Cross’ Featuring Ama K Abebrse, John Dumelo, Adjetey Anang & Others to Be Premiered in London On Friday-31 October | It’s A Must WATCH

Doube Cross-Ama K Abebrese
Doube Cross

Surely, a movie featuring African Movie Academy Awards’ Best Actress-Ama K. Abebrese, talented actors-John Dumelo and Adjetey Anang wouldn’t need multiple endorsements before you realize it is going to stand tall amongst the best African movies ever seen…

On Friday-31st October, 2014 in London at the Greenwich Odeon Cinema (8pm), African movie lovers will have the opportunity to see the above named actors and several other talented actors take up the challenge in Double Cross—as they tell the story of a streetwise programmer whose life turns upside down at a red carpet premiere to be attended by the stars.

For the start, we get to see something totally different and yet interesting as we break away from the usual African movie stories mostly dominated by witchcraft and unrealistic romance—therefore you cannot miss this premiere.

Double Cross does not only push the storyline frontier higher, it also brings together some of the best actors we have in Africa to play central roles in telling the story—making it a movie worth a watch.

In Double Cross “Effie Howard (Ama K. Abebrese) a streetwise programmer’s life is dramatically turned upside down when her fiancé Ben Boateng (Adjetey Anang) is convicted and sentenced for a bank robbery he did not commit. Determined to prove his innocence; she carried out her own investigation and finds the actual robber; Danny Frimpong (John Dumelo) a calm and collected sophisticated genius of a thief who has a personal vendetta against the bank he robbed Neptune Bank International. He robbed the bank using urbane technology which enabled him to enter, steal and exit the bank leaving everyone mystified as to how the theft was carried out, no witnesses, no evidence, yet the money is gone.

John Dumelo in Double Cross
John Dumelo in Double Cross

She meets Danny and threatens him but later offers him a deal; and it’s to rob the bank again with similar methods as the first so the authorities know the actual robber is still out there, then Danny will not lose what matters to him most and the reason for the bank robbery. She plans to relocate with the stolen money and start a new life with Ben when he is acquitted so as to get away from the stigma attached to ex-convicts and their families. They are successful in the robbing the bank, Effie now sets her sights on a jewellery warehouse and she wants Danny to rob it.

With a lot of jewellery and money at stake, each one of them tries to outwit each other with medleys of smart thinking as they plan and execute the robberies. They meticulously plan the robberies, but no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare them for the dangerous enemy, an enemy Effie least expected and never saw coming; an unexpected turn of events on the day of the robbery, what happened”

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Chris Brown’s Two Cents on The Ebola Issue: Agrees with Those Who thinks It’s Population Control

Chris Brown
Chris Brown

Chris Breezy has stirred up some sh*t this morning, revealing his thoughts on the Ebola epidemic sweeping across West Africa; and a lot of people are not going to be happy with the popular RnB star.

The Loyal hitmaker hit twitter this morning to give his take on the issue, and somewhat surprisingly, he is in the camp of those who believe the epidemic might be a form of population control.

A certain hypotheses is going round that this all epidemic might be an intentional gimmick by the powers that be, releasing the virus in certain African countries to check their unstoppable population growth. The theory has more supporters than you might think.

He tweeted:

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