Nigeria Entertainment News; Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Mo Abudu named in Variety's International Women's Impact Report 2018
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Mo Abudu named in Variety's
International Women's Impact Report 2018
In recognition of International Women's Day on March 8,
Variety has discharged its first International Women's Impact Report.
The 50 ladies on this countdown are doing remarkable things
in Showbiz, and included on the countdown are our own one of a kind CEO of
EbonyLife TV, Mo Abudu and Nollywood star Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde. Likewise on
the countdown are Lupita Nyong'o, Adele, Salma Hayek, Gal Gadot and that's only
the tip of the iceberg.
Read Variety magazine's profile on Mo Abudu and Omotola
Jalade Ekeinde beneath:
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde:
Within excess of 300 acting credits to her name, Ekeinde is
a symbol of Nigeria's productive Nollywood film biz, in spite of the fact that
she says that, "on a fundamental level, I think I am a lobbyist
initial." A minister for the U.N's. World Food Program and campaigner for
Amnesty Intl., she's utilized her wide screen plat frame to drive her
philanthropic objectives.
Her subsequent stage is building up a film town in the
previous slave port of Badagry, where she needs youthful Nigerians to sharpen
their filmmaking abilities while finding out about "our rights and future
as Africans," she says. "I keep on exploring ways we genuinely can be
freed and prosperous."
Mo Abudu:
Abudu utilized her star-production springboard as the
substance of daytime talkie "Minutes With Mo" to dispatch the
EbonyLife domain, with a film creation unit and upscale way of life TV arrange;
she's been named the Oprah of Africa. "As a lady in a male-commanded
industry, I've must be solid, engaged and persevering — and work twice as hard
as the men around me," she says.
Resolved to push for sexual orientation equality in the
Nigerian business, she assesses that almost 80% of "key positions" at
EbonyLife are filled by ladies. This year she'll uncover a tutoring plan to
help the up and coming age of young ladies in film and broadcasting.
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