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.