Ghanaian actress Martha Ankomah has added her voice to the telenovela debate. She has made a passionate appeal to the government to ban telenovelas outright since is it is detrimental to the growth of our local productions.
The pretty actress said structures should be put in place which will encourage more of local series to be shown against the foreign ones which are not even rooted in the Ghanaian culture and moral values.
Martha Ankomah told Accra based 3FM: “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.
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. The local content should be shown more to make people interested. If the government can bring in a law to stop the TV stations.
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.”
The influx of telenovelas has threatened the development of our movies, and many industry players expressing grave concern.
Television stations always want to outdo each with TV content and they have realised telenovelas happens to be the biggest bait to attract more viewers.
