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Thursday, 18 April 2013
Omotola Jalade Ekeinde makes the 2013 TIME MAGAZINE 100 Icon list
TIME magazine has released its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the
world, from artists and leaders to pioneers, titans and icons...and our very own Omotola made the Icon list. She was named the queen of Nollywood.Below is what TIME wrote about her.
By Richard CorlissApril 18, 2013
The
world’s most productive English-language film industry is not Hollywood
but Nollywood. The teeming Nigerian cinema grinds out some 2,500 movies
a year, mostly direct-to-DVD quickies mixing melodrama, music and an
evangelical Christian spin. (Think Bollywood via Tyler Perry.) Employing
a million Nigerians, Nollywood enthralls millions more who come for the
thrills, the uplift and the artful agitations of Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde
— the Queen of Nollywood.
Called OmoSexy by her fans, she has made 300 or so features, from the
1996 Mortal Inheritance to the 2010 superproduction Ijé, shot partly on
location in Los Angeles. Married to an airline pilot she wed on a
flight from Lagos to Benin, Jalade-Ekeinde brings a juggler’s grace to
her roles as actress, singer, reality-show star, mother of four and
philanthropist (the Omotola Youth Empowerment Programme).
Success hasn’t spoiled Africa’s most renowned leading lady. Rather than going Hollywood, Omotola wants to stay Nollywood. Corliss is TIME’s movie critic
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