Nollywood fever grips Uganda

After years of watching Hollywood films, Ugandans would be expected to have picked up phrases such as “Wannabe” “Watz up, guys” and “I done nothing.” But this is not the case.

Instead, they are more comfortable with Nollywood phrases like “Oga,” “Igwe,” “My people” and “I don’t like it, oh.”

Welcome to Nigerian movie magic. The movies are all the rage in the Pearl of Africa.

To many Ugandans, no talk is complete without a sprinkling of Nigerian English accents.

What many cannot imitat — at least for now, is pidgin English — a mixture of English and Nigerian local languages.