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Nigerian film history

Kanayo O. Kanayo: the Living in Bondage actor who became a Nollywood elder Profile Kanayo O. Kanayo: the Living in Bondage actor who became a Nollywood elder Kanayo O. Kanayo, born Anayo Modestus Onyekwere in Imo State, rose to fame in the 1992 film Living in Bondage, often called the start of Nollywood. He became one of the industry's best-known faces, playing powerful and often villainous men.