Zubby Michael Is Not More Popular Than Me – Timini Egbuson

Nollywood actor, Timini Egbuson has come out to say that he is a bigger actor than his other colleagues in the entertainment industry.

He recently revealed why he considered himself a bigger actor than Zubby Michael, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, him talking about being the biggest actor in Africa had nothing to do with Zubby, and it was about being bigger than every other actor in the entertainment industry.

He added that going by the number of movies he and Zubby have shot, the box office records, and popularity among people, there is no way he is not the bigger actor between them.

His words, “The number of movies we’ve shot, the box office records, popularity among people that…all of those things if we put them together there is no way Zubby will score higher than me.”

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.