I Have Told My Wife To Ignore Those Calling Her Barren – Lateef Adedimeji

Nollywood actor, Lateef Adedimeji has come out to urge Nigerians to stop accusing his wife of being barren. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he sees a lot of people predicting that he would dump her or marry another woman to bear him children soon, and he can only urge everyone to be a bit more sensitive with their assumptions and judgements.

Lateef added that people should know childbirth is a super delicate journey that cannot be rushed.

Hs words, “We have always been of the opinion about ourselves. We have conversations all the time. Recently, somebody still called her barren on social media. And she will be like ‘Ade, come and see. That is how they call me all the time. I would just be like leave them. They will be fine. When it is time, what will be will be. Just leave them.

People do not know what you go through. People do not know your decisions. People do not know if you have decided, ‘Okay we are now married. Let us play for three years and maybe after, let us start thinking. What we are building is not what every other person wants to build.”

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.