God Instructed Me To Not Cut My Dreadlocks – Pastor Jimmy Odukoya

Nollywood actor, Pastor Jimmy Odukoya has come out to open up on why he decided to leave his dreadlocks.

He recently had his say during his latest sermon, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, before taking up pastoral responsibilities at the church, he sought spiritual guidance about his dreadlock hairstyle, and God gave him the go ahead to not cut it.

Jimmy added that he encouraged his sister to also seek divine confirmation that he was meant to leave his hair as it is, and she did.

His words, “Before I came back, one of the things I asked the Lord was whether or not I should cut my hair. And the Lord told me not to cut my hair.

I knew what God had said to me, so I told my sister to go pray and that God will speak to her. She goes back and told me I wasn’t supposed to cut my hair, to which I replied, ‘I know, because God already told me.'”

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.