{"id":444593,"date":"2017-12-07T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/agya-koo-saved-dying-ghanaian-movie-industry-kwaku-manu\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T09:00:32","slug":"agya-koo-saved-dying-ghanaian-movie-industry-kwaku-manu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/agya-koo-saved-dying-ghanaian-movie-industry-kwaku-manu\/","title":{"rendered":"Agya Koo saved dying Ghanaian movie industry \u2013 Kwaku Manu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday,  7 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/88180833.295.jpg\" alt=\"Agya Koo1 Campaigns For NPP\" title=\"Agya Koo1 Campaigns For NPP\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghanaian actor, Agya Koo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512637232_26_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Popular Ghanaian movie actor, Kwaku Manu has lauded his colleague, Agya Koo saying he alone saved the movie industry from dying following the emergence of Nigerian movies and needs to be praised.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s legendary comedian Agya Koo, born Alex Kofi Adu indeed took the local movie to a different level when the industry was really struggling to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian movies in the early 2000s took over the local market in the country claiming billions of cedis from Ghanaians to the detriment of what was being produced in Ghana at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Though many movie producers struggled to save the industry, none was successful as the popularity of Nigerian movies soared to the disadvantage of the locally produced ones.<\/p>\n<p>However, Agya Koo who was groomed into movie from the infamous \u2018concert party\u2019 with the help of Miracle Films made local movie popular, attractive and loved by most Ghanaian.<\/p>\n<p>Former President John Agyekum Kufuor before exiting power in 2008 honored him for his role in reviving the dying industry<\/p>\n<p>Kwaku Manu who was commenting on the development said: \u201cWe must give him a standing ovation. 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