There Should Be No Special Day To Celebrate Love – Jide Awobona

Nollywood actor Jide Awobona has opened up about why he does not make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day. He recently had his say during an interview with Saturday Beats, and fans have been reacting.

Recalling a past Valentine’s Day experience that left a bad memory, Jide narrated how his Feb. 14 date with a woman ended badly because he was on a call with a family member for hours.

Awobona added that the experience immediately taught him that there should be no special day to show love.

His words, “We went out one day and it ended horribly because throughout the day, I was on a call with one of my family members for hours.

We actually went out to a restaurant to have a nice time, but at the end of the day, we fought and argued. It was not a good day.

I don’t want to have a special day before I can show love. Every day is like Valentine’s Day for me. It depends on the vibe and the mood. I show love every day.

You need to learn to show love to everybody—friends, family, people you don’t know, people you know. Love supersedes intimacy or someone you’re dating. In my daily life, I try as much as possible to express love.

On Valentine’s Day itself, Jide said he focuses on work and his craft rather than one specific celebration.

As I’m speaking with you, I’m at work. If it’s not Valentine’s Day, I’ll still be at work entertaining people. That’s what I do.

A lot of them feel like, ‘If my boyfriend cannot do this for me, we can’t be together.’ That means you rate material things over how you feel for the person.”

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.