Popular media personality, Yeni Kuti has come out to react to a trending video of Nollywood veteran, Ngozi Ezeonu publicly rebuking two upcoming actresses for attending an audition without wearing bras. She recently had her say while speaking on a programme on TVC, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, it wasn’t really any of Ngozi Ezeonu’s business to reprimand the young ladies, and older women should learn to not forget what they also did when they were much younger.
Yeni added that Ngozi saying she never did such when she was their age is what she has a problem with.
Her words, “I think it wasn’t really any of her business. All she had to do was to reject them ‘I don’t want people who dress like you’, that’s all. She made a statement saying ‘Even when I was your age’. I do not want to be a hypocrite because when I was that age, I wore tight jeans and small tops.
We forget as old people what we did, so when we are criticizing young people, I have forgotten what I did at 24 or 20 when my stomach was flat. If I wear it you will call me and say Aunty are you not ashamed to be showing this your stomach about.”
WOW.
Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.
The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.
Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.
Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.
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