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Veteran Ghanaian actor Majid Michel has described comparisons between Ghana’s movie industry and Nigeria’s Nollywood as unfair, citing the difference in the populations of the two countries.
Speaking in a recent interview with Y1079 FM Accra, Michel argued that Nigeria’s larger population gives it an advantage in the film industry, including a potentially bigger pool of actors and filmmakers.
He described the comparison between the two industries as “stupid,” insisting that it was not fair to measure Ghana’s film industry against Nollywood.
He said, “The comparison between us and Nigeria is such a stupid comparison to me. If you have 50 children and I have 5 children, the possibility that you will have more criminals, doctors, good children and filmmakers than me is very high.
“We are less than 40 million in Ghana. Nigeria is over 200 million, almost 300 million. So how on earth would you compare?
“Why do they have more doctors than us? Mathematically, you should know why. So if Nigeria has more filmmakers than us, it only makes sense because they are way more than us.
“It is also unfair for us to compare ourselves with any other established nation in the world. When it comes to leadership, we are adolescent.
“There are countries that have been in leadership for over 300 years. They have built systems. We are way behind. So it is an unfair comparison.”
