I’m 38, My Mother Is Yet To Clock 50 – Uche Ogbodo

Nollywood actress, Uche Ogbodo has come out to share a photo of her passport biodata to prove that she is indeed 38 years old.

Recall that the moviestar recently had a faceoff with an Instagram user who disputed her claim that she was born in 1986, and fans have been reacting.

Responding, Uche simply asked the people doubting her real date of birth to shut up because her mother isn’t even up to 60 years yet.

Her words,

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.