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Dear Peace, I choose to celebrate you. You came into Nollywood in the early 2000s and from the get go, you inspired the industry with your passion for its progress and development. You wanted what was best for us all. You used your connections with government officials and diplomats to push and push for the industry. You opened vistas for many of us internationally with unselfish networking and positioning.
Above all, you were a sister to many of us. I remember how we went to Berlin Film Festival in 2004 to speak on the growing potentials of Nollywood in a panel session. On that trip, you refused to allow me spend one penny. You would pay for everything I ate or bought till I had to rebel one day to show you the thousands in foreign currency I had with me and to warn you to stop spoiling me. I never forgot your reply with a laugh 1 spoil my brothers’. That touched me.
You became blood. All through the years, we would call and talk and talk about the industry and how to make it better. I am glad you grew your baby; the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) for 18 years and made such a huge impact. I’m glad you made this journey and touched lives. For what can we be remembered if not for the lives we might have touched and good deeds done in spite of all?
I never stopped celebrating you when you were alive and you knew it. Oh, you had your faults too and we all have but you were a good soul. It is jarring to know that you are gone but there is peace and perfect peace where you are now. That’s the consolation.
Your legacies, in deeds and memories and institutions, will forever live on. Rest on, Worthy Matriarch.
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