I Was Passionate Enough To Fund Content Creation With My Side Hustles – Kiekie

Popular content creator and Nollywood actress Kiekie has come out to speak about how she gained public recognition. She recently had her say during an interview with Tobi Makinde on his new talk show, TTM Show, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, it took her seven years to gain the spotlight, and she never gave up because she was doing what she was passionate about.

Kiekie added that her success story is surely a unique one because while many others would have given up and focused on doing something else, she kept at it because her passion for the work only grew.

Her words, “The story is unique because I sometimes call myself a late bloomer. Because it literally took seven years to gain the spotlight.

I started creating content in 2013 but didn’t gain the spotlight till 2020. It was seven years of me constantly doing what I love, funding what I love with the other jobs I was doing.

Some of those who had known me before I became popular as a content creator will know that I used to be a stylist. I was once Simi’s stylist.

My first viral content was the Fashion Shock Show that started in 2018.

The moment I hit the spotlight, it just continued like that.”

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.