One of Kumwood’s screen goddess, Emilia Brobbey has expressed her spite on the subject of she being branded with the Kumawood title.
According to the mother of two, the word Kumawood has been misconstrued over the years. She said Kumawood is not for actors but for a prestigious company which is noted for organising awards festival for Akan movie actors based in Kumasi.
She said:
“When you were talking, you mentioned the word Kumawood, I was looking at you critically but if I wasn’t on radio I would have frown. I hate that name Kumawood. Kumawood isn’t for actors, it’s somebody’s company name… someone who has organised awards, his company’s name is the Kumawood and Akoben Awards so it isn’t a brand name for actors from Kumasi.
We’ve Ghana Actors Guild which most actors and actresses in Ghana are members, so I don’t get this brand ‘Kumawood’. I think automatically people are dividing the actors.
“I don’t believe in that name Kumawood because it pisses me off. Once we’ve a group recognised by Government (Ghana Actors Guild) stop branding us with other names.”
“I produced a movie in January 2017 and because production has totally gone down I wasn’t able to come out with another movie until now in May, so how can I eat since market is low.
I pray to God that those soap operas will be curtailed so we can have our jobs back.”
