I Abandoned My Dream To Become A Lawyer Because School Fees Was A Burden On My Mum – Kamo State

Popular Nollywood actor Kamo State has come out to say that he actually planned to become a lawyer. He recently said that financial challenges forced him to consider a different career path, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he focused on performing arts after abandoning his dreams to become a lawyer, a decision that eventually helped him channel his creativity into content creation.

Kamo added that after getting admission around the same time as his sister, funding their education became a very tough ask for his mother, hence his decision to do something else to ease her financial burden.

His words, “I really love your content for one year. Me, I’ve been doing content since 2012, yes. Man, 2012, I was seven in 2012. I’ve been creating content since 2012, but I can say my major break out happened in 2019. You guys 2020 during lockdown. Yeah, absolutely. So, basically, I wanted to be a lawyer. Yes. Yes.

My siblings, generally, is so high for my mom. I got into, I got admission at the same time as my sister. It was a very difficult thing for my mom. The single mother, like, send us to school and all of that. So, I had to wait for my sister to go first. Wow, wow. And I rewrote, I wrote Jambe Day, second year. They gave me a lot. My mom called me and said, Kama, then it was like that. Thank you. Are you sure you want to do this? Who’s going to sponsor you? How do you want to do it? Wow. But I mean, I had to, like, rethink that.

Okay, what if I pass the money, I’m not going to do it, okay?Do you get it? So, I had to, like… Actually, I studied performing arts. Okay. Do you get it? What school? Wait, you’re about to know what I mean. Ah, oh, shit. Yes, now.”

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.