Ghanaian actress and film producer Selassie Ibrahim has blamed the Ghanaian preference for foreign content as part of the reasons for the collapse of the Ghanaian movie industry.
Speaking during an interview on Hitz FM on December 2, 2024, Ibrahim noted how the Ghanaian audience seems to be biased against local content.
She bemoaned how local productions are heavily criticised, while foreign productions are accepted, a phenomenon she said does not happen in countries like Nigeria.
“Because when you go to Nigeria, you don’t find them watching any Ghanaian movie. But in Ghana, anything foreign is fine; everything Ghanaian is bad.
“They will criticise. They will not go and watch. I can’t figure it out. I don’t get it. We don’t know how to celebrate our own… and that is what has killed the Ghana movie industry today,” she lamented.
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She further claimed that local TV channels favour cheap foreign productions over high-quality local content, which in turn led to a decline in the rate of local productions.
“The TV channels are not helping us. I’ll say it again. I don’t care what they think. I’ve said it before, and they bashed me. But you know what? I will still keep saying it until they help us,” she said.
Her comments join that of veteran Ghanaian filmmaker Socrate Safo, who also accused TV stations of destroying the local film industry.
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