Learn To Respect People’s Choices In 2021 – Adesua Etomi

Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi has come out to say that we all need to normalize respecting other people’s choices on how they handle situations this year.

She recently revealed this via her social media handle, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to her, people are wired differently, and it comes to play in the way they grieve, express joy and love, so we just need to respect these individual differences.

She added that life is always better when we do not try to control the life of others while living ours.

Her words, “Let this b the year we normalise ‘respecting people’s choices’. Choices on how 2 grieve, how 2 express Joy & Love. Choices on what they share & when they share it or if they choose not 2 share, Life choices, etc. Just respect it. We’re all wired differently. Respect the difference.”

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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.