The Wave Of Grief Still Hits Me 5 Years After My Mum’s Death – Osas Ighodaro

Nollywood actress Osas Ighodaro has come out to open up on the grief she went through after her mom’s death. She recently had her say while speaking as a guest on the newly released episode of VJ Adams’ show Off The Top, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, the emotion still gets the best of her from time to time, and she has just learnt to allow it to take its course once she gets into the mood.

Osas added that she is now used to letting the waves of grief come and go, without letting them overshadow her.

Her words, “I haven’t cried in a while; it has almost been five years since my mum passed away and the pain never goes away.

From time to time the emotion takes over and it can come unawares and that’s what I’m not really keen on. You could just get into the mood, and it’s a lot but I’ve learnt to allow it to take its course, brush it off and keep it moving.

One thing that has really helped me, and I usually say this when someone loses a parent, is that this situation is temporary. Live your life the best way you can that so when your time comes to transition, you have a lot to tell your family over there.

So I’m trying to live my life so that when I meet my mum long from now, I’d have a lot to gist about.”

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.