Celebrities Must Learn To See Themselves As Evangelists – Iyabo Ojo

Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo has revealed her reason for supporting comedienne Princess during the Baba Ijesha alleged rape case. The moviestar recently shared that she had to voice out because she was also molested in the past.

According to her, while she tried to control her emotions when the news broke, she was so outraged by the situation that she eventually had to speak out for her fellow victim.

Iyabo added that she was molested severally by different men many years ago, and her personal experience ended up influencing her reaction to the Baba Ijesha rape case.

Her words, “I really didn’t control my emotions then because I was outraged by what happened. I think it’s because I was also coming from that part, where I had gone through whatever she went through multiple times… and I just felt like enough is enough.

You’ll notice when I kick, I kick when my fellow entertainers do wrong, because I feel like we are supposed to do right by our people. We are also evangelists… we cannot be preaching and doing the same bad thing that we’re telling people is wrong.”

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.