Nollywood actress Shine Rosman has opened up about how she coped with the painful loss of her father. She recently had her say while speaking as a guest on the Open Up podcast hosted by Amanda Dara, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, immersing herself in work helped her channel her emotions and find strength during one of the toughest periods of her life.
Rosman added that even though people say that time heals, she does not think it does.
His words, “I was able to work away a lot of emotions. People say time heals; I don’t think it does.
The more I’ve advanced in life, the more I’ve realised that my parents have always been my true role models. My mum and dad set such wonderful examples for me that I don’t desperately desire to be anybody but them. Maybe I just want to be a better version of them, a healthier version, because many of our parents had to deal with a lot of toxicity from their own upbringing, which they unknowingly passed down. One has to give them grace for that. But I truly admire my parents and strive every day to become a better version of them. My role models are my parents.
By being myself. The expectations people have of you can easily creep into your life and start to affect how you think. But surrounding yourself with the right people makes a big difference. My best friends are my sisters. Outside of my family, I probably have about five true friends, people who are genuinely my friends and whom I hold very dearly.”
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.
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