Popular content creator and Nollywood actress, Mummy Wa, has said she is setting firmer boundaries in 2026. She recently had her say during an interview with Saturday Beats, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, she will stop taking on projects that disrespect her time or compromise her values because she is no longer comfortable with her work being limited to just content.
The skitmaker added that she’ll be giving room for Kemi Ikuseedun to grow and showcase other sides of herself this year.
Her words, “I am no longer available for projects that will disrespect my time, disrespect or drain my values, and reduce whatever I do to ‘just content’.
That phrase, ‘just content’, is something I am no longer comfortable with. I am going to work on myself in different ways. My peace is very important to me, so anything that disrespects my time or my values, I am no longer available for it.
There is still a whole lot to the Mummy Wa character. This year, I want to explore and observe more. I am allowing Mummy Wa to age and to observe life. At the same time, I am giving room for Kemi Ikuseedun to bloom, grow, and showcase other sides of herself in filmmaking and storytelling.
It taught me that trends are important, but consistency is far more important. Consistency outweighs trends, alongside the need to reinvent oneself. If something isn’t working, you try again. Even when something has worked for a long time, there is always room to create and explore more. With consistency comes relevance, and people begin to trust your voice. That’s how you stay relevant.”
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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