I Like When People Say I’m In Love With Myself – Bolanle Ninalowo

Nollywood actor Bolanle Ninalowo has opened up about finding self-love. He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, it gladdens his heart whenever he hears people say he loves himself because he is done choosing others.

Emphasizing the extreme codependency he lived with for almost his entire adult life, Bolanle added that self-love is now one of the most fulfilling parts of his existence.

His words, “When I hear, ‘This man you too love yourself’.
Omo, you have no idea how much it gladdens my heart oo!!
As a matter of fact, it is now one of the most fulfilling parts of my existence.
Loving and choosing others, people-pleasing, over-giving, and the extreme codependency I lived with for almost my entire adult life made me realise something during my healing journey.
I didn’t know how to love or value myself.
What I once called Love was, in many ways, simply attachment.”

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.