Ex-Nollywood actor Linc Edochie has reacted to the trolls mocking him for remarrying after divorcing his first wife. He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the people saying that he divorced his wife to marry an old cargo should get off his back because he and his family are not responsible for the problems in Nigeria.
He added that the people behind the attack to remember that karma comes for those who insult others unjustly.
His words, “In the last 24 to 48 hours, the internet has been ablaze with pictures of me and my new wife. A lot of people have attacked us and have said all soughts of things and I am wondering ‘why can’t you let people be?’
In our culture, when you insult an elder who has done nothing wrong to you, Karma will come for you. When mindless bloggers were insulting my family, my parents, my eldest brother and myself, calling us all soughts of names saying we we are ritualists, did voodoo and spent May’s money, I am wondering where is all this nonsense coming from?
No facts, no evidence, Nothing! A family that has done nothing wrong to you.
I don’t care what names you call…’You married an old cargo’ and I am laughing. Do you know who she is? Do you really know anybody?”
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.
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