I Won’t Stop Acting Until I Die – Mama Awero

Mama Awero

Veteran Nollywood actress Mama Awero has said that she will not stop acting until she dies. He recently had her say during an interview, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, she has been a professional actor since 1964, so she really doesn’t know anything else apart from acting.

Emphasizing that she began her career alongside Oga Bello and Papi Luwe, she stressed that Sola Sobowale was also part of her first theatre group.

Her words, “I will die acting. I have been doing this since 1964 and I don’t know how to do anything else aside from acting.

I am also knowledgeable in film costuming because I learned that from my bosses in my early days as an actress.

Sola sobowale was a member of the Awada Keri Keri theatre group.

Many people know myself, Oga Bello and Papi Luwe but we also had Prince Jide Kosoko, Yomi Fash Lanso, Ronke Odusanya, Kunle Afod, Bakky Adeoye, late Funmi Martins and Dele Odule as members.

These names began their career with Awada Keri Keri.”

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.