See The Big Picture: From Script To Screen

You have to see it as you write it.

I have written for the stage, radio, television and cinema.
I was the youngest professional scriptwriter for the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) from when I was 18 years old and I was well paid for three years before I went on to be commissioned as a public health illustrator and translator for a family planning project by the JHU/PCS of the @johnshopkinsu through the, USAID @usaid when I was 21.

I see everyone and everything even before I write a script for a stage play, teleplay or a movie. I have co-written and written screenplays which have not been produced, because I want them to be produced by the best filmmakers. 

The "Naked Beauty" screenplay co-written with the multiple award winning veteran #Nollywood filmmaker and film studies scholar, Dr. Chika Christian Onu is a masterpiece and I published it as a book since 2006. Just in case you don't know who is Dr. Chika Onu. He is the director of the sequel to "Living in Bondage"  of Chris Obi Rapu of 1992. He directed "Living in Bondage" 2 in 1993; "Glamour Girls" in 1994; " Karishika"" in 1996 and over 100 other movies.
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He said:
"The road to the phenomenon called Nollywood has been exciting and awesome."
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1994. Dir. Chika Onukwafor (“Christian Onu”).

He is still active and currently writing a book on Nollywood.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series
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"Dance of the Locusts" Inspired By Wole Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel"

"Dance of the Locusts" is title of one of my plays set in a rural Yoruba village in south western Nigeria in the 1950s.

A romantic drama inspired by Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka's play, The Lion and the Jewel.

I was angry that the romantic idealist school teacher, Lakunle lost the belle of the village, Sidi to the polygamous Chief Baroka , the Balè of the chiefdom of Ilujinle. So, in  my "Dance of the Locusts", the teacher won in the end.

The parents of the belle of Itẹsiwáju, Wuraọlá the most beautiful maiden said she had been betrothed to the Asiwáju of Itẹsiwáju Kingdom and so there was no need for suitors, including. Olufẹmi, the young handsome village school teacher she was in love with. 

The Asiwáju was rich and powerful and the only owner of a car in the kingdom. Olufẹmi had only a Raleigh bicycle which Wuraọlá enjoyed riding with him. But he was a poor teacher by traditional standards without any house or farmland.

All hopes seemed lost for Olufẹmi as their plans to elope failed until a conspiracy of the universe favoured him and Wuraọlá, when a thrumming swarm of thousands of locusts invaded the village at dawn. Olufẹmi quickly carried Wuraọlá on his bicycle and fled the village.

"To Ibadan, my love! Where I am going to go to the University of Ibadan to study Law and you will study to become a school teacher!"

"We will have beautiful children," she said.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

Publisher/Editor, 

NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series 

247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) / Twitter

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