I Won’t Stop Bragging About Omoni Oboli – Chioma Akpotha

Omoni Oboli and Chioma Akpotha

Nollywood actress Chioma Akpotha has praised her best friend Omoni Oboli after the filmmaker was honoured as YouTube Nigeria Content Creator of the Year. She recently flaunted photos of Omoni on Instagram, alonsgide an heartwarming note, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, she is proud to have a best friend who keeps exemplifying excellence, and she’ll keep bragging about Omoni online and offline.

Chioma added that Oboli will continue to celebrate incredible milestones because she is a woman of grace.

Her words, “Plot twist: My best friend just became the Top #NumberOne YouTube Creator in Nigeria. Do you people understand the LEVEL? Omoni Oboli is carrying excellence on her head like Aunty Nike’s gele and it is sitting perfectly. I am bragging today, tomorrow and next week. Congratulations @omonioboli my woman of grace and fire.”

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.