Ghanaian actress-Martha Ankomah wants the government to ban Kumkum Bhagya and all the many telenovelas which have taken over Ghanaian airwaves–to the detriment of locally produced content.
According to Martha, a ban on telenovelas will help boost production and sales of local content.
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“Telenovelas are speaking Twi, so why would people watch our content whiles they are speaking Twi. That is why I think the foreign has taken over. I think the government should put up a policy that will prevent the media houses from showing the foreign content” Martha Ankomah told Accra based 3FM on Friday.
She continued: ” I think some of us are doing good movies. There should be structures in the industry to show more of the local series. The foreign series are too much.
When she was asked if she is aware that some of the local movies are of poor quality such that they kill whatever interest, she said; “some of us do good stuffs. Others do the wrong. That’s true. Producing a quality movie takes a lot of money. We don’t have investors. We finish movies sometimes before we set off for sponsorships. We have good script writers but it all boils down to money”.