God Came Through When I Thought My Career Was Stagnant – Linda Ejiofor

Linda Ejiofor and Ibrahim Suleiman

Nollywood actress Linda Ejiofor has opened up about a difficult phase in her career. This comes after the moviestar experienced a major turnaround that led to her recent double win at the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA).

Revealing that she once believed her progress in the industry had stalled, Linda shared how that moment of doubt pushed her to seek divine intervention.

Thanking her husband for playing a key role in encouraging her during that period, Ejiofor added that Ibrahim Suleiman kept telling her how well she did in her recent movies.

Her words, “Three years ago, I thought my career was stagnant and not going anywhere, and I asked God for something, anything. And He gave me two beautiful stories.

I am so grateful to God, grateful to my husband because he stood by me through this. He told me that I did well in both movies. To be honest, I didn’t believe him.”

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.