I Was About To Pay For Late Cynthia Okereke’s Flight Before Her Demise – Joseph Okechukwu

Veteran Nollywood actress, Cynthia Okereke is dead.

She reportedly died on Tuesday night, but the cause of her death is still unknown.

Reacting to her demise, popular filmmaker, Joseph Okechukwu wrote that he is shattered beyond words because he was about to pay for her flight for them to wrap up their movie project together.

Joseph added that life is really just a mist, one minute you have it, the next you don’t.

His words, “REST IN PEACE, Nwanyi oma. I’m shattered beyond words.”

“The fact that I was about to pay for your flight ticket to come finish what we started only to here you went to be with Lord just last night is one of the toughest things I’ve ever had to deal with in recent times. I pray I’m able to recover from this shock. Life is really just a mist. One minute you have it, the next you don’t.”

“For the more than 20 years that I’ve known you, you’ve been such an amazing, decent and lovely soul to be around. I never imagined you’d exit so unceremoniously. Words fail me.”

“Sleep on, Cynthia. May your gentle soul rest on till we meet again in glory. #CynthiaOkereke”

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.