Female Politicians In Nigeria Inspired Me To Join Politics – Funke Akindele

Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, has come out to announce that she intends to make a return to politics. She recently had her say during her appearance on the inaugural live edition of “WithChude” podcast, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, despite her 2023 political journey ending in defeat, she plans to run for office again because she joined politics in order to support Nigerians and give back to the people who have given so much to her.

Funke added that watching existing female politicians make their mark as leaders has ended her fear of wanting to become a leader in Nigeria.

Her words, “I am glad I went into politics. And ask me, am I going to do it again? Oh, yes. Oh, I love it.

I need to support, I need to give back, that is why I went into politics.

Getting into it, seeing the violence, seeing the shouting. Then I started watching female politicians, you know, the way they speak. The way they speak. and the way they command respect, authority.

And I’m like, hey, you are not alone. You can do it. And I stood, I spoke. I learned that from there, that you have to be bold. You have to be courageous. You have to be strong. What will be will be. Fear will only put you in a place.

So, all this I learned from doing politics. And I got to know a lot of numbers. I got educated more, acquired more knowledge. You know, I’m reading more now, knowing more about my country, knowing more about my state.

When I want to speak, I’ll speak with the statistics, you understand, with the data.”

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.