I believe we are all actors so if the English speaking actors are looking down on us, then we are not united.”Īkrobeto says he avoids them completely because he does not want any embarrassment. “I have met Majid several times and anytime I try talking to him, he doesn’t even look at me or consider me as a human being. He mentioned that there had been several occasions Majid Michel has shunned him. “I get the impression that they see themselves as better than us and therefore look down on us” he said.Īctor Salinco was more candid about his experience. The actor also mentioned that on another occasion, Nana Ama McBrown introduced him to some English-speaking actors at an event and he experienced a similar humiliation. Kwaku Manu mentioned that on several occasions, he had tried chatting with some of the English-speaking glamour-type actors at events and the responses he had received were rather chilly, quoting him: “As though those of us who act in Twi are second-rate.”Ĭiting an example of one of such embarrassing as the 2011 Ghana Movie Awards, he said, he personally approached three English-speaking actors in a conversation and their reaction suggested that they did not recognise him as a colleague actor. The actors who complained about the excessive snobbish behaviour of some English actors were, Kwaku Manu, Akrobeto and Salinco. When I read this report in Graphic Showbiz, it was like reading about two different countries competing against each other. The fact that somebody speaks English in his/her field and another speaks Twi in his/her field does not make one better than the other. It doesn’t matter to me if an actor belongs to Kumawood or Gollywood, they’re all part of the creative industry. The Ghana Movie Industry is one industry running on different dialects. Some mentioned that the English speaking actors tend to embarrass them when they even get close to them. Some Twi actors since and after the awards have complained bitterly about how some of their ‘counterparts’, the English speaking actors treat them especially at public events. There is a great divide in the Ghanaian movie industry and this became more evident prior to the last Ghana Movie Awards when the local dialect actors ‘Kumawood actors’, threatened to boycott the event.
Agya Koo, Juliet Ibrahim & Roselyn Ngissah
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