I Shouldn’t Have Respected Alex Ekubo’s Privacy – Nadia Buari

Alex Ekubo

Popular actress Nadia Buari has penned an emotional tribute to late Nollywood actor Alex Ekubo. She recently opened up about a secret journal where she documented moments and memories with the deceased, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, the actor gradually withdrew from people around him, but instead of pushing harder to reconnect, she chose to respect what she believed was his need for privacy.

Confessing that she did not call or physically check on Ekubo before his death, Nadia admitted that she regrets the distance she gave him.

Her words, “I told you I gave you a different name — Liam — so that if the journal ever got lost, no one would know it was you. And you smiled and said, ‘I like the name Liam,’

You withdrew so suddenly, and I didn’t push. I thought I was respecting your space.

I wish I had checked on you more.”

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.