Kumawood

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Kumawood
Company type LLC
Industry Film
Founded2006
Headquarters Kumasi, Ghana

Kumawood is a privately owned movie and awards company [1] that is based in Kumasi, Ghana. [2] [3] It was founded by Samuel Kwabena Darko, a Ghanaian businessman and entrepreneur. [4]

Kumawood was incorporated as a Limited liability company in 2006; soon after, a prominent film industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable film company in Ghana. [5]

The company has been lucrative because of their consistency in producing and providing good quality content in Ghanaian movie space. [6] The language mostly spoken is Asante Twi subtitles translations are available. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Kumawood owns a television platform, Kumawood TV, which airs on Multi TV and also a Kumawood app which has more than 100,000 installs. [11]

Kumawood Actors

Renowned Kumawood Actors include the following

- Kofi Adu (Agya Koo)

- Kwadwo Nkansah

- Bill Asamoah Archived 2023-08-17 at the Wayback Machine

- Nana Ama McBrown

- Emelia Brobbey Emelia Brobbey

- Akrobeto

- Kyeiwaa

- Mercy Asiedu

- Vivian Jill Lawrence

- Ebenezer Donkor

References

  1. ↑ Online, Peace FM. "Kumawood Is Not A Movie Industry; It's My Brand". peacefmonline. Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  2. ↑ Orlando, Valérie (15 April 2017). New African Cinema. Rutgers University Press. ISBN   9780813579580 . Retrieved 18 February 2019– via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Video experience headlines". BBC News. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "I am very much disappointed in Adom TV - Kumawood CEO". GhanaWeb. 31 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Asiamah, Emmanuel (21 August 2023). "We're on course of reviving Kumawood, Ghana movie industry".
  6. ↑ "Abstract" (PDF). ijrhss. 2017.
  7. ↑ "kumawood - Ghana Film Industry". Ghana Film Industry. Archived from the original on 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  8. ↑ "Kumawood Actors". Yen- Ghana news. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  9. ↑ TalentsGh TV (2018-08-31), Kwaku Manu Talk About Kumawood Ghallywood Differences , retrieved 2018-11-15
  10. ↑ AfricaNews (8 June 2017). "Kumawood, the thriving movie industry in Ghana". Africanews. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  11. ↑ "Kumawood - Apps on Google Play". play google. Retrieved 2019-08-06.


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