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• Osuofia clarifies: 'Yoruba did not start Nollywood', insists his remarks were about home video origins

  Veteran actor Nkem Owoh, known as Osuofia, has pushed back on claims that Yoruba people founded Nollywood, saying the name did not exist when early filmmakers began producing home videos. He credited Yoruba pioneers like Hubert Ogunde for starting the home-video tradition.