With the Netflix acquisition of Lionheart and other Nigerian movies that gained global popularity, 2018 was unarguably a good year for Nollywood.

But it was not a great year.

Like we said here, Nollywood movies have improved greatly in cinematography and sound, but other elements that would have taken it from good to great are largely lacking.

The first thing Nollywood needs to work on in 2019 is its stories. This, in fact, is the greatest thing it needs to improve. Almost everybody swears that the story is the most important aspect of any movie or any work of art for that matter.

Really, what is a movie without a story?

Osuofia in London may have made some people laugh, but, did it really tell any concrete story? Merry Men may have showcased some of Nigeria’s finest men, but, was there any logical development in its storyline?

Nollywood has to know and acknowledge that telling a story in a movie is different from narrating that same story over a bowl of garri with friends. Every good story must have a beginning, a logical progression, conflict and an end. Even if the end of the story were to come first, every scene must be interrelated.

The amateurish practice of starting a story with Ramsey Nuoah, and ending it with Emeka Ike, or packing a movie with stars and then leaving them to invent their lines and action must stop in 2019 if Nollywood wants to live up to its full potential.
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