Most Marriages End Because African Men Can’t Coexist With Female Leaders – IK Ogbonna

Nollywood actor IK Ogbonna has spoken up about the secret power struggles affecting modern marriages. He recently shared that these power struggles are seriously affecting marriages that involve African men and independent women.

According to him, the power struggle is not always down to a lack of love, but due to unspoken societal and cultural pressures that end up wrecking the home.

He added that several romantic relationships that begin with mutual admiration often spiral into silent battles for control, identity, and dominance.

His words, “It doesn’t always start as conflict. In fact, it often begins with admiration. He is drawn to her strength. She is attracted to his confidence.

But somewhere along the line, ego meets ego, pride meets independence, culture meets ambition.

So what starts as love becomes a power struggle. Not because they don’t love each other. But no one taught them to love each other’s strengths without feeling threatened.”

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.