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‘Authentic Story-Telling’ Is A ‘Great Thing’ I Like In The Nigerian Movie Industry (Nollywood) – African Actress Nulu Maingi
African actress, Ruth Nulu Maingi, from Kenya and a leading actress in Kenya, who has just featured in her second Nollywood movie titled ‘PlayBack’, produced by Lancelot Imasuen, is still happily expressing her gratitude to her creator for making her dream come true.
Maingi had always had the dream to break into the Nigerian movie industry, and since the year 2018 that she made her debut in the Nigerian movie industry, when she featured in one of Lancelot Imasuen’s movies titled ‘Family First’, with other actors like Monalisa Chinda-Coker, IK Ogbonna among others – the African-Kenyan actress hasn’t continued to seek for more acting-roles in Nigerian movies.
Her third Nollywood movie titled ‘Daddy’, a short film which is scheduled to be released soon, is another exciting movie that will definitely solidify her spot in the Nigerian movie industry.
The movie ‘Play Back’, which is starring Lancelot, Grace Bassey, Desmond Elliot, Ruth Maingi among others, was recently released, on Lancelot Imasuen’s YouTube Channel. The movie has already attracted millions of views in not more than two week after its release.
Maingi (an actress, dancer and voice-over artiste) said it was her long-time dream to break into the Nigerian movie industry(Nollywood), since she had her acting debut in 2009, after landing a ‘lead role’ in the TV series titled ‘The Team’.
The beautiful African actress, who studied ‘Dance and Movement’ at Kenya Performing Arts School, also said she fell in love with the Nigerian movie industry because of the way its stories are told, authentically.
In her words: “I admire how they take their crafts seriously and how they work so hard to keep their industry growing. I also admire how Nigerians support the industry and encourage the cinema culture in the country.”
As regard the evolution process in the Kenyan movie industry over the years, Maingi said that the industry was growing in leaps and bounds when compared to the past years.
Her words: “It has moved from doing two films a year to doing over ten in a year. We have had an OSCAR nominated movie ‘Watu Wote’. Also, we are beginning to cultivate the cinema culture in the country.”
Mangi, who is also an ambassador of ‘The African Film Festival(TAFF)’, has featured in over forty movies, including over six films in the ‘Africa Magic Original Films Series’. She is also the lead Actress in the ‘original Mama Duka Drama Series’ that won the ‘AMVCA Award’ for ‘Best Indigenous Original TV Series/Film East Africa’ in 2014.
Our MPCA grandfinale will come up on the 20th of June 2024 at wocdif, along ringeoad, osogbo, osun state, Nigeria.
Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, has announced that his sixth studio album would be dedicated to his late mum, Jane Morayo Balogun.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker made the announcement in a video message shared via his social media platform on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
He also disclosed that the album, which is titled ‘Morayo’ and in honour of his late mum, would be released ‘very soon’.
Wizkid’s words: “My album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.”
It could be recaled that Wizkid’s mother, Jane Dolapo Balogun, died on August 18, 2023, in London.
The singer said the pain of losing his mum ‘hurts deeply’.
In his words: “The pain is profound.”
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Actress Patience Ozukor: I Rejected The Name-Tag ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ On Me, To Have My Own Name-Tag ‘Patience Ozukor’
Nollywood veteran actress, Patience Ozokwor, has disclosed and talked about how people tried to impose titles and name-tags on her at the beginning of her career and how she handled it.
The veteran actress said when she began her acting career, people tried to compare her with legendary actress, Liz Benson, by tagging her as ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ but she rejected the tag because she believes they are both unique.
She disclosed that she also rejected suggestions to answer her husband’s first name as her surname and instead chose to bear his family name.
She actually disclosed this in an interview session via a media platform.
Her words: “I don’t know how it started, all I know was that when I started my acting career and people started recognizing this woman from Enugu.”
“So, there was a time I came to Lagos for a shoot and people started saying, ‘That’s her, this woman from Enugu.’ They said, “You’re the ‘Liz Benson of Enugu.”
“I said, ‘No, with all due respect, I don’t want to be like Liz Benson, I want to be myself. I am ‘Patience Ozokwor of Enugu’.”
“And some people came and said, ‘You don’t even need to answer Patience Ozokwor again. Answer your husband’s first name Edmund; Patience Edmund.’
“I said, ‘No, because in Igbo land, you’re not just married by one man, you’re married by a family. I don’t know about other tribes.”
“So, my husband’s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say ‘I know where she comes from’,” she concluded.
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