Guest Feature : LEILA DJANSI IS SOO WRONG AND STELLA DAMASUS IS MISSING THE POINT

This is hard! I love Stella, at one point in my life; I was told that I look like her…..lol…must have been my hair style then… I enjoyed her movies when she was actively making them. It was lovely to see the chemistry between she and Richard Mofe Damijo..Yes I was one of those who thought they totally had to be together. I digress.. sorry

I love Leila, when I used to nurse the dream of becoming an actress; I wanted to be in her movies, Shirley too J. I admire talent and intelligence and if a person has that, whatever else they are is not really important to me…bear in mind I have no role models J Anyway…enough of the introductions…back to the issue.

Miss Stella Damasus, You are RIGHT! But you lost me. I have combed and searched online to find the whole documentary to see if I could get a different perspective or see if she meant something else but I couldn’t so I am going to judge her on the little clip I watched from your presentation. You are right, we should all be proud of our roots!

Miss Leila you had no right to say that upcoming moviemakers from Nigeria should not label their movies “ Nollywood” movies. Any negative connotation about Nollywood will be associated with the movie? What does that even mean? Nollywood is the name of the Nigerian movie industry and for you to make that statement that any “negative connotation “that comes with the name will affect the movie is insulting.

What your statement really suggests to me Miss Leila is that you do not think highly of the Nigerian movie industry and Miss Stella has every right to be mad even though its just your opinion…I don’t see Hollywood movie producers running away from the name “Hollywood” If Nigerians do not proudly market their movies as Nigerian movies, how do they get on the map? Miss Leila you seem to me the type of person who will lie about where you went to school or deny people you use to know because you are ashamed of it/them.

Are you encouraging people to disassociate with the instruments that gave them a start up? What did you really mean Miss Leila?

Miss Stella, you are RIGHT but you TOTALLY MISSED THE POINT

Miss Leila did not call the Nigerian movie industry “HITLER” She used it as an example of how a name may mean soo much and have a lot of history. It was a bit much to use that example but its an example all the same. Now see this is my issue with us. We did not invent the English language so we cannot Interpretate it the way we want.  

You lost me the moment you accused her of calling the industry “Hitler”. Come on now…she did not say that. Like I said before she likened the impact of a name to it. When you started, I thought you were going to go all pan African and pro African on her but you lost it. The Hitler bomb blinded you a little bit huh?...its okay..I get like that sometimes too. And also Miss Stella I think calling out the names of all the people was a little “inciteful” but maybe that is just me

Miss Stella, I completely understand where you are coming from, it’s a shameful thing she said. She kind of sounded anti- Nigerian but you didn’t do right by the accusation.

Maybe its just wishful thinking because I like Leila but I want to watch the entire documentary to judge her but from the clip, Miss Leila, YOU ARE SOO WRONG!!

By Owusua Dacosta