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Nkechi Blessing
Nollywood actress Nkechi Blessing has warned the public against secretly recording her and her partner during outings. She recently had her say via a video posted on her Instagram page, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, a woman recently filmed her and her partner without their consent at a restaurant, and she considers the act intrusive and disrespectful.
The moviestar added that she would not hesitate to damage any phone used to secretly record her.
Her words, “Public service announcement. And I really do not want to come off as being rude, arrogant, or proud. I am sure a lot of you remember me saying I am in a very happy relationship now, but I seriously do not want it anywhere on the internet, Instagram, social media in general, because we are enjoying our relationship off the media.
And then tell me why last week I was in a restaurant with my man, and then there was this lady recording us secretly. One of the waitresses called my attention to it. And then I walked up to her, and then I said politely, ma’am, I find it very disrespectful of you to make videos of my man and me without our consent. It doesn’t make sense.
Yes, I am a public figure. I am in your faces. If you wanted a picture or a video, walk up to me. I don’t bite. But if you’re trying to take unsolicited pictures and videos of my man and me, I wouldn’t take that. This is somebody that I don’t want on the Internet. He’s not ashamed to go out with me.
So why do you think it is you who is supposed to put our pictures and our videos out there? Now, I am saying this categorically. The next time you see my man outside and me, please keep your phones. Because guess what? I will break it.
Can you see how softly I said that? Because I no wan make we fight. This man does not want to be out there. Yes. He is a public figure, but he does not want to be known. Does that make sense? Like he doesn’t want to just be in the news for the wrong reasons, and if eventually I want to bring him to the internet, I would do so at my own time.”
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.
