Veteran Ghanaian actor, David Dontoh
Veteran Ghanaian actor, David Dontoh, has waded into the recent renaming brouhaha of the Ghana film industry to “Gollywood”.
According to him, Ghanaians are copying blindly just because other movie industries have “wood” in their name Ghana is also doing same.
Speaking in an interview with host KOD on The Zone on Starr FM Wednesday, he said,’ “I don’t subscribe to the name ‘Gollywood ‘because I don’t know where it’s coming from. If it’s the ‘G’ in the name, it could be Guinea or Gambia”.
“I think we’re just trying to reinvent the wheel. The one who created a Ghanaian film called it Ghana Film (film from Ghana). So I don’t know why we’re trying to follow people because everyone has a ‘Wood’ in their name” he said.
“Show movies for our own people to appreciate and that’s when I can say we have a movie industry but until that is done, I can’t say we have an industry”.
