Crazitive African Magazine : Can we meet you ? Wole Ojo : My name is Wole Ojo , I ' m a Nigerian actor and a film-maker . Yeah ! I like to describe myself as happy-go-lucky . That ' s it . CAM : When and How did you start acting ? WO : I ' ve been acting for quite a bit now , I ' ve always done it since childhood but professionally , I started acting at age nine ( 9 ). I worked with NTA for over six ( 6 ) years where I featured on a kiddies program titled ‘ Kiddies Vision 101 ' and I played the role of a producer and director on the show . It was a show centered around kids running a television station . I also featured in a family comedy series titled ‘ One Big Family ’, created by Charles Novia , directed by Sadiq Daba and had a host of great actors on it , so yeah , my romance with film-making and television started at a tender age . CAM : What was it like winning the fourth edition of AMBO reality show ? WO : It was exciting , it was good . I went into the house because I thought it was a platform to help propel my career cause at the time , I did so well as a kid actor but transiting into an adult actor and doing this for a living was a bit difficult so when the opportunity presented itself to go to a reality show that was centered around acting , it looked like a good platform to give the career the extra push and I did and Iwon and it was exciting . So yes , it was a good feeling . CAM : What can you say about the Nollywood of old days and the Nollywood of now in terms of progress ? WO : Well , it ’ s growing . It can ' t really be summed up holistically because some departments are progressing and some are not . With regards to referring to Nollywood as old and new , I do not like to do that cause I feel it ' s wrong , it ’ s an industry , it ' s a discipline , it ’ s a field because I don ’ t see people asking bankers ' what do you think about the old banks and the new banks ’?
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It ' s a process , it gets better so with Nollywood , it ' s the same . People need to start seeing it as a professional field so its getting better , technically , we ' re improving , we ' re getting better sound , we ' re getting better pictures .
We ' re understanding the mechanism behind marketing and publicizing more and we ' re having great jobs that are doing well box-office wise with regards to Nigeria . We ' re moving forward , I ' d admit that the growth is slow , that it could be better but an industry that has been without form for so long , it ' d only take time to get the act together so we ' re growing slowly .