Controversy Overshadowed My Talent For Years – Nkechi Blessing

Nollywood actress Nkechi Blessing has said that controversy overshadowed her talent for many years. She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.

Responding to a YouTube viewer who commented that he previously disliked her but was beginning to appreciate her work, Nkechi stated that she now wants audiences to focus more on her work as an actress.

Understanding why people felt some type of way initially, the moviestar accepted responsibility for allowing controversies to dominate public perception of her career.

His words, “I know a lot of you feel like that person up there. No worry na my fault na me use Controversy cover my talent. Na why I slow down on unnecessary drama,but you see moving forward…all of Una wey call me failed actress for this app? Una must swallow una words…cus the line up of movies I featured in both YouTube and Cinema? Let me not talk.”

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.