Nollywood actress Ruth Kadiri has dismissed reports saying she is dead. She recently had her say via a video on her Instagram page, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Describing the rumours as false, Kadiri assured fans that she is alive, safe and not involved in any accident.
The moviestar concluded by urging her followers not to amplify the false reports by attempting to debunk them.
Her words, “Please know that I am alive. I did not have an accident, and I’m safe.
If you see any of those pages that are carrying this terrible news, because I woke up and somebody created 7-8 accounts just to make content like this while I did not know what I’ve collected from you people’s hands.
I please beg you to report the page if you come across it. They know that nothing happened to me, and they decided to spread this rumour.
Just one click, one report, that’s all I require from you. Don’t even try to debunk the news. Thank you, and God bless you.”
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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