Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo has finally opened up on why she allowed her ex-husband to attend their daughter’s wedding. She recently had her say during an interview with Morayo Afolabi Brown, and fans have been reacting.
Stressing that she believes in ancestral curses, Iyabo stated that she had already made up her mind that whatever had happened between her and her ex wouldn’t affect her children.
The moviestar added that the invitation was a price she had to pay for her daughter to succeed and be happy.
Her words, “So I don’t know there’s something called ancestral curses and we African believe it, I believe if you don’t want something to continue you have to be able to break it, I made up my mind whatever situation that had happened cause my dad my mom also you know we’re not together yeah every mistake they had made that I have made my children will not make it. I have paid the price for her to succeed, for her to be happy in her marriage; her father is not dead; he’s alive.”
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.
