Egbert Adjesu (born in 1931) is a Ghanaian screenwriter and director best known for the 1970 film I Told You So, released in the post-colonial era.
[4] I Told You So was made under the support of the then GFIC, to explore the structure of orthodox storytelling and the aesthetics of the concert party theater for its formal quality (Ogunleye, 2014).
[6] Egbert opined that cinema was used as a part of an intensive multi-media campaign propaganda to win the support of the natives for Britain.
This was done to gain the sympathies and garner the backing of the locals to contribute able-bodied men and other necessities in aiding the efforts of Britain in the war.
[7] Along with Sam Aryeetey, Tom Ribeiro, and a host of other early filmmakers, the Ghanaian film industry was birthed.