I’m Always Asked To Step Aside At The Embassy Once I Bring Out My Nigerian Passport – Angela Okorie

Nollywood actress Angela Okorie has come out to say that no country has denied her a visa before. She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, she is an American citizen who has refused to settle down permanently in the U.S. because she likes travelling the world with her Nigerian passport.

Angela, however, mocked her own nation by saying she is always asked to step aside at the airport once she presents her Nigerian passport.

Her words, “If I tell you I have never been rejected for a visa before, will you believe me?

I love being a citizen of America, but my problem na I go gree stay? I have been going to America for over 12 years. I just like as I dey enter every country I want with my Naija passport, but this our Naija passport once Oyinbo sight am next na step aside.

If you stop me aside when you open my passport, na only you go tell me to go.

Some of you just started making trips. I still get people who pass me for making trips, so calm down and take life easy. You will get there.”

WOW.

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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.