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When you think of Toyin Abraham(Formerly known as Aimakhu), what comes to mind is her amazing acting prowess and controversies. The outspoken role interpreter has stated that Nollywood filmmakers need to place more value on homegrown content , rather than deploying fake accents in their movies.
Speaking with Planet Radio TV, the Alakada actress said: “We want to watch stories, we want to hear stories about us, don’t give me what they do abroad. That’s why they are not accepting us. But watch it, if we do movies that is our own content, they accept it abroad because you can’t be whiter that the white. You cannot put someone that would be speaking with British accent that is not British, in a Nigerian movie and expect them to take the movie abroad.
“It’s like you wanting to use an Igbo man to play a Yoruba character that he cannot play.Let’s promote our own culture too, look at the movies that are making waves right now, ‘Omugwo’, ‘Wedding Party’, ‘Wives On Strike’, ‘Okafor’s Law’, my movie is coming, ‘Alakada’ it’s a Nigerian story. Let’s write stories about us.
“Then we don’t have to be forming accent, what’s that? This is me, this is the way I talk, if you want to accept me, accept me for who I am”