It is no longer news that, two top Yoruba actors, Yinka Quadri and Fathia Williams have returned to school.
What is new is the reason behind the big step. Believed to be a welcome step among Yoruba movie practitioners, the duo of Yinka Quadri, and Fathia Williams, are presently undergraduates at Ogun State University, now Olabisi Onabanjo University.
Both thespians were persuaded to go back for their higher education in order to keep pace with their counterparts in the English sector of Nollywood; which is believed to be dominated by Igbos. Information reaching us has it that there is a new body for movie practitioners, Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Producers’ Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), It is believed that TAMPAN will progress faster than ANTP. This is one of the reasons many of its actors are going back to school.
Fathia Williams; who is studying English Language, in a statement, revealed that the decision is in line with her plan to start a film school while Yinka Quadri sees it as an opportunity to perfect his acting skills and film production.