Popular Nollywood actress Regina Chukwu has blasted the practice of secretly recording private conversations. This comes amid the controversy surrounding her colleague Toyin Abraham’s leaked voice note, and fans have been reacting.
Questioning why people secretly record phone conversations with their friends and acquaintances, Regina stated that she firmly believes in saying things she can confidently repeat to someone’s face, rather than speaking negatively about them behind their backs.
The moviestar added that it would deeply hurt her to discover that someone she freely chats with secretly recorded their private conversation without her permission.
Her words, “I am still trying to understand the norms about secretly recording phone conversations your friend/acquaintance is having with you like, why the recording in the first place?
Thank God, I will never say things I can’t say to your face, behind you! But I do get deeply hurt if someone I am comfortable gisting with records our conversation in secrecy.
I mean, what exactly?”
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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