Stop Telling Celebrities Not To Show Off – Bukunmi Oluwasina

Nollywood actress and filmmaker Bukunmi Oluwasina has urged social media users to end online cruelty. She recently begged Nigerians to stop celebrating the misfortunes of public figures, especially women.

According to her, the jubilation culture whenever celebrities suffer setbacks needs to end because it means making fun of people who are at their lowest.

Bukunmi added that blaming popular figures for always showing off is wrong because some people can only feel happiness by convincing others that they are happy.

Her words, “But what I see as very mean and uncalled for, is some of you making a mockery of someone in her lowest moment. Just because “Sebi she used to show off, sebi she was peppering us, why was she doing fake life, misleading young girls to think she is living her best life and she made a good decision.” Now, take a pause, sit down.

Ask yourself, if you were in this person’s shoes would you not show off? The truth is, not all of us would love to live a quiet life. Some people’s way of being happy is to be able to convince others that they are happy, and subconsciously it becomes their truth.

It’s like therapy to them. And while at it, they tend to show off every little beautiful moment. Which is very okay. So why blame public figures when they are going through something, saying “You should have done better as a role model” is it not diabolical?”

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.