There’s No Such Thing As An Independent Woman – Mary Njoku

Mary Njoku

Nollywood producer Mary Njoku has come out to correct the narrative that women love being independent. She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, there is no such thing as an independent woman because independence is actually not a preference, but a response.

Njoku added that nobody really prefers to live alone, and human beings only become independent when they don’t have dependable people around them.

Her words, “There’s really no such thing as an independent woman.
Independence is not a preference; it’s usually a response.

No human truly wants to do life alone.

We become independent when we don’t have Dependable people around us.

So before labelling a woman as “independent” or “overly self-sufficient,” it’s worth asking why. Are you DEPENDABLE? Because when someone shows up CONSISTENTLY, nobody chooses isolation.

Independence is learned in the absence of reliability.
She is strong because she has to be.
Be dependable. And watch her strength soften into trust.”

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.