I Lost My 4-Year-Old Son While I Battled A Mysterious Illness – Alapini Osha

Veteran Nollywood actor Alapini Osha has opened up on the battle he faced before he lost his 4-year-old son. He recently had his say during a heartfelt interview with Oyinmomo TV, and fans have been reacting.

Noting that he was bedridden while he battled a mysterious illness that robbed him of sleep completely, he revealed that he lost his son 3 months into the sickness.

The moviestar double tragedy left him emotionally shattered because he struggled to cope with his health challenges while mourning the death of his young son.

His words, “I was sick for a whole year; I couldn’t sleep, neither day nor night. I never believed it was my movie roles that caused it, because people who are not actors also fall sick and die.

After all we spent to save him, I still lost my 37-year-old son. I’ve known pain and grief in ways words can’t fully describe.”

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.