Zakes Mda Blast Nomzamo Mbatha for Changing her Rich African Accent For a Chequers In Coming To America 2

Mzansi Poet, Zakes Mda accuses Nomzano Mbatha for changing her African accent in Coming to America 2 that was released over the weekend. 

Insinuating that the actress changed her generic African Accent to fit into the role of Mirembe the Royal barber for a Cheque the writer isn’t particularly feeling good about it. 

Speaking to Timeslive the poet expressed “Oh I agree completely about the accent! For some reason the actress had to change her SA accent, which is African, into something else that she and her director imagined to be an ‘African accent’ in keeping with the ‘African accents’ of the African American Actors”.

Furthermore adding “I mean I would go along with that explanation if this was an imaginary accent for an imaginary country. But it’s a generic accent that African Americans use when they play African characters whether they’re Ugandan, Nigerian or South African”.

Fans being fans with a little bit of critic also had a few things to add.

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“My literal first comment during the movie was ‘so Lisa didn’t age a day in 33 years’ They all look so good.”

“Watched the movie yesterday. It was nicely done. Sequels don’t usually live up to the original. But it did make a nice evening for me and the hubby.”

“Not many movie franchises have paused multiple decades between chapters in the story. The results are usually spectacular because so many years of thought went into them. (Star Wars and the Godfather come to mind.) I expect nothing less for this movie.”