Legendary Ghanaian actor Adjetey Anang has issued a passionate call for African creatives to unite and reclaim ownership of their stories, warning that the continent risks losing its cultural identity to foreign media interests.

Speaking in an interview with TV3, the celebrated actor expressed concern over what he described as a troubling trend of Hollywood studios mining African stories and repackaging them for global audiences.

"There are so many stories that we're not telling and the likes of Hollywood are coming into this space and fishing out what our stories are and retelling them in their own way and selling them back to us. There's something wrong there," he said.

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Anang, one of Ghana's most iconic screen personalities, urged industry players across the continent to prioritise collaboration as a strategic response to the challenge.

"I believe strongly that we should put our hearts together. Collaboration and partnership are very key," he stated.

According to him, such partnerships must be sustained rather than short-lived.

"We should ensure that those partnerships are ongoing so that we can, in every aspect of our creative space, project who we are and our culture, through our music, our food, and our language," he said.

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