Nigerian Movie Star Profile
Stella
Damasus
I have interviewed many people in my time. I have had
extensive conversations with the likes of Hayford Alile,
Sunny Kuku, Raymond Dokpesi, Chinweizu…But I have never had
the pleasure of interviewing someone as obviously
unpretentious as Stella Damasus-Aboderin. The star of movies
like DANGEROUS DESIRE and NEVER SAY GOODBYE, Stella has a
passionate following among the lovers of Nigerian movies
scattered around Africa and the African Diaspora.
That is all the introduction you’re going to get. Read the
rest. It is a joy...
- Sola Osofisan
Sola Osofisan: Stella, you are called Damasus by some,
Damascus by others. For the record, tell us the correct name
please.
Aboderin
Stella Damasus-Aboderin: It’s Damasus. D-A-M-A-S-U-S.
There’s no “c”.
S.O.: I’m sure you must have grown tired of correcting
people by now.
S.D.A.: Oh, I just let them call me whatever. I’ve heard
worse. I’ve heard “Damastockings”. I just let them call me
whatever, but everybody knows they’re talking about me.
S.O.: Damasus is an unusual name. What part of the country
are you from?
S.D.A.: I’m from Asaba, Delta State. Damasus was actually
my grandfather’s first name. It’s a Greek name. The family
name was actually Ojukwu, but when the war broke out, the
Nigerian Civil War, a lot of Nigerian soldiers mistook my
family for the real Ojukwu himself, so a lot of things
happened to my family members until my grandfather came and
said look, instead of them killing our people thinking we’re
Biafrans, let’s just change our name, so we’re safe. That’s
how the name became Damasus.
S.O.: And it has remained the same ever since?
S.D.A.: yeah.
S.O.: Interesting. You grew up in Asaba or in Lagos?
S.D.A.: I grew up in Benin City actually. I only lived in
Asaba for about three years when my father was transferred
from former ACB Bank in Benin to Asaba Branch.
S.O.: So you did all of your schooling in Benin City?
S.D.A.: Yes. But my JSS 3 to my final year in secondary
school I did in Ibusa, in a private school in Ibusa about
15mins away from Asaba. But from the time I was born to that
time, I did most of all my education in Benin.
S.O.: In what way did your childhood prepare you for a
career in the entertainment industry?
S.D.A.: I think it was basically my mom. My mom used to be
an opera singer. She used to be a stage actress. When we
went to church together, she used to make me sing with the
junior choir and all that. And then whenever we were in
school and they wanted to do a school drama, she would tell
me to go for it. Since I was in primary school, she was
always there making sure that I did one drama piece or one
song or something.
And when I was growing up, they bought tapes of Boney M,
Abba and she made me sing along and things like that. I
would actually hold the electric kettle cord as my
microphone and all that in front of a mirror. Ever since
then, she just basically knew that I was going to do
something in the entertainment world and she just kept
encouraging me to do that.
S.O.: That is also unusual. The typical parent in Nigeria
would never encourage you to go into the entertainment
business.
Stella: (pix: Olaolu Afolabi)
S.D.A.: Yeah. My mom’s case was different because she was
in it. I had a problem actually (with my father) when I
started acting because of the impression a lot of people had
about actors. My mother was always supporting me and she was
there telling him its not like this, have you forgotten how
we met, though I was a banker but then I was doing my
singing and acting on the side so let her do what she wants…
And my parents are very liberal people, you know, so they
let their children be who they want to be. It was easier for
me because my mother was already an entertainer before I
joined them.
S.O.: Wow, you’re one of the lucky few.
S.D.A.: Yeah.
S.O.: It appears you did a lot more acting work in 2003
than any other year… What happened?
S.D.A.: I honestly don’t know. I can’t say for sure. I just
know that each one I did, people just kept calling me. I
won’t lie to you, the money got better and bigger, so it was
difficult for me to say no. As a fact, I used to say let me
take time off for my kids or let me take time off for… Last
year, it was just like a blow out. Everybody remembered that
I was around. I also realized that the scripts that came my
way were very good and they were characters that would
project me more. So, I guess that’s why. But I can’t tell
you why they wanted me all the time. I don’t know.
S.O.: What kind of roles do you accept?
S.D.A.: It has to be something that is based around me,
something that makes me important, something that challenges
me, something that will make me really work. I cannot just
take a script, look at it and just go and talk. Something
that will make me rehearse in my house, look at my mirror,
have someone to read with me at home, something that will
make people to be blessed, so every day and say please can
we break down these scenes and let’s do a character
analysis, something that moves me that I don’t really need
to do anything artificial, something that will make me bring
out the best from the bottom of my belly, you know…
Something that will make me work like the one I’m doing
right now… Its really making me sweat. Scripts that make
sense. Scripts that will talk to you - as you’re reading it,
you’re imagining it and you’re going through the motions
with it, not just any story, you know? Stories that you can
relate to, that you know that whenever people see it, they
will remember you for doing one thing or the other… That’s
it.
S.O.: Which is the one you’re doing right now?
S.D.A.: Dangerous Twins, the one with Tade Ogidan.
S.O.: I know they shot a series of scenes in England.
You’re not in the England sequences?
S.D.A.: No no, I’m the wife of the other twin in Nigeria.
S.O.: Dangerous Twins id promising to be an explosive
thing.
S.D.A.: Oh yes, oh yes it is. And then with the cast as
well, it’s going to be fantastic. We have Sola Sobowale and
Bimbo Akintola also in the movie. It’s going to be very
nice.
S.O.: And Ramsey Nouah?
S.D.A.: Ramsey Nouah is a fantastic actor. He’s doing so
well. In fact, I’m really really complimenting him. I do
that every day because it’s not easy playing a twin. You
wear one costume, play all the lines of one person, wear
another costume of the other twin and start doing all the
lines and remember what the other person said and how he
dressed, and you know things like that. And he’s been doing
it so well. I’m really really impressed with what I’m
seeing.
S.O.: What is it like, Stella, to have two talents? I’m
talking about the singing and acting now. Do you get pulled
to explore one more than the other?
S.D.A.: Em… Maybe. I’ve been doing both together at the
same time. I think I prefer it like that because I don’t
want a situation where I would have to choose between the
two. I manage my time very well. My husband and I, we have a
band called Synergy, and we have a lot of shows. Private
shows for weddings, launching and things like that. And then
I do my movies as well, but if you ask me to choose between
(two) of them, I will tell you I probably can’t because I
love both of them and they complement each other. You know,
now I’m being offered scripts to play as singer in a movie
and I’m telling them the highest bidder will take it. If
people are planning to use me as a professional singer… I
have something that I perceive as being an edge over a lot
of other because I can do – and I’m a dancer as well. So I
combine all of these things to try and make me a perfect
actress, you know… At least the best I can be.
S.O.: You sing, you dance and you act?
S.D.A.: Yes.
S.O.: Interesting. So how did you sharpen all these skills
Stella? At the professional level, did you have any special
training or did you just start doing it? How did you get
into it formally?
S.D.A.: I’m a theatre arts graduate. I’ve been doing
theatre arts for (long distance gabble). I’m doing a
part-time course. And in these five years, I think I know a
lot. As a theatre student, you must have (more long distance
gabble). The acting, to be a theatre arts student, you have
to go through different acting techniques, acting styles and
people that have propounded a lot of theories about
expression, movement, bodywork and things like that. So I
guess I try to put a lot of that into practice whenever I do
a movie or anything else because I try to translate what I
have read into practicals – into motion. I read a lot of
books. I love to read, so I try to educate myself… Each
character I play, I try to talk slightly different from what
I have done. I try to change my style of acting, my style of
walking, things like that… I think its basically my
education that really helped me. And then my husband used to
do movies as well. He used to be an actor as well, and since
he is more experienced than I am, he helped me out a lot
when I was starting. I guess I do try to improve in
everything that I do by reading more. I’m studying other
foreign actors as well cos I have this artist that I like a
lot – Cicely Tyson. I think she’s fantastic so I learn a lot
from her.
S.O.: Aside of Cicely, is there any other person you would
call a role model?
S.D.A.: Jack Nicholson. I love him as well. And I think
they’re fantastic because I’ve seen them do these same roles
and they’re so convincing. I mean Cicely Tyson played a
role…She played the role when she was a very young girl and
she grew up into a great grandmother and she was so
fantastic because her voice changed, her style of acting
changed, everything changed, so for someone to do that, it
takes a lot of work and I respect it…
S.O.: Are there roles for instance that you would not play?
In Obaseki (Pix: Sola Osofisan)
S.D.A.: I don’t think so. I think I can play every role
because it’s my profession and if I play a very bad role or
a loud role, it means I am doing it to correct something.
The script has to be right. If I’m just going to play (for
instance) a prostitute just for the sake of being a
prostitute and it doesn’t make sense and the story is not
centered around that particular person so she’s able to
change at the end of the day and make people realize how bad
it is, then I don’t think there’s any point in doing it. But
if I’m playing roles like that where I have to really loud
but at the end of the day there’s a message, a positive
message, that’s going to be passed across, that people need
for the ills of the society. Then I probably would do it.
You have to learn different acting styles and techniques to
be able to play things and make them convincing without
being extremely vulgar or do things that are very extreme
that people will frown at. There are ways of doing different
things that I try to learn every day, so I don’t think I
will shy away from any role. It just depends on the director
I’m working with and how we can work together to bring it
out without having to irritate people or be vulgar about it.
S.O.: Let me ask you a vague question. What’s the most
challenging thing that has ever happened to you?
S.D.A.: Oh my God, what do I say? I think that it’s being a
young wife. Because of who I am and what I do, its not easy,
because in this part of the world, its not easy to keep your
home intact because when you in-laws, you have families and
then there are some things that you would probably not
accept or take and because of the negative publicity we get
and things like that… I think that’s my greatest challenge
because sometimes they hit on us the females who are married
and it takes a lot of work to try and repair the damage and
also a lot of work to try and make sure that your spouse
trusts you enough to stand by you and believe you… And also
to be that wife that your in-laws expect you to be, no
matter what, even if it breaking your back or killing
yourself. I think its more challenging than any job or
anything I have to do outside because if you regard
something as the most important thing in your life, I think
that is the think you fight hardest to keep intact. Its more
difficult for an entertainer – an actress - to keep her
home, especially when herself and her husband are very young
and are going through a lot of things and trying to be
adults and trying to be mature and trying to be role models
and parents and all that. I think that’s basically my
greatest challenge in life and I am determined to succeed.
Really really determined.
S.O.: You briefly addressed my next question in your last
response. I was going to ask you what it is like to have the
husband and wife in the entertainment industry? How does it
impact on the home, the children and everything?
S.D.A.: We have a way of doing it. We always make time out
for the kids. We never abandon them. And we found out
recently that whenever we have shows outside Lagos or
outside the country, I find that I stay back so that he goes
and I stay with the kids – or sometimes, if I have to travel
on location or something, he stays in town. But if both of
us have to go, then there must be a family member who will
stay with them. And its not easy, you know. It’s not easy…
That is where we fight the most… Because we work together,
we don’t always agree on things. Of course we’re two
different people. He’s a human being; he has different views
and things like that. I’m a human being; I have my own set
rules and principles, even though I try to do what the Bible
says… You must submit to your husband. Of course I try to
that, but at the same time, there are some things that I
will need to stand on or grab on to and say no, this is how
I want it and he may not like it and we fight a lot. But
being in the entertainment world together is one of the most
– in fact, I’m very lucky because even though we have our
problems when we fight, we find that we always have
something to talk about, something to bring us back
together, you know… If there’s a problem in your house, and
we have a show tomorrow, what are we wearing? Okay let’s do
this and before you know it, we’re already talking. I have a
movie… Okay, let’s read it together.
And again, it’s easier for me to go, shoot, stay out late,
come back and he understands because he’s into it as well.
We basically try to help each other out and do our work, but
he’s still the same person that says if you have to do this
job, do it well. Don’t say because of me you will not do it
to the best of your ability.
S.O.: Do you see your kids going into the entertainment
business?
S.D.A.: My first child, no. My second child, probably. I
think she’s getting because she cannot stay in one place if
she hears the slightest sound. She would stand up and dance
or do something. My first child is more subdued. She’s more
of a technical person. She like remote control, she likes
cable, she likes phones… She doesn’t like toys actually. She
doesn’t like things that are entertaining. She likes things
that are very technical like the computer; she likes working
with her father, things like that… So, I’m still watching
them to see what will happen.
S.O.: Synergy… You guys only perform in exclusive circles?
S.D.A.: Yeah.
S.O.: Is there any special reason behind that? Or is it the
kind of music you play?
S.D.A.: No, it’s not just the kind of music. We started out
playing regular shows in places like Jazzville, Eko Hotel
and places like that. But as you grow older and you expand
your band, you find that you need to grow more because you
find that in Lagos it is when you play private gigs that
you’re respected more and you’re paid more. When you do
regular shows at the Jazzvilles and Eko Hotels, they pay you
just a little bit of money to get by. In everything you do,
you try to expand and move up and earn more and gain more
and be more recognized. I guess we moved up and people
started accepting the fact you cannot just come and see us
every week. We are only at exclusive places where you must
have really paid well for and things like that. Its not just
the kind of music, cos my band, we do copyright songs most
of the time, apart from our own songs. We play highlife, we
play funk, we play disco, we play oldies, we play all sorts
of music. We even play at traditional weddings. We’ve played
at a Nikkai before. We’ve played at even Owambe. We have
different people in the band that specialize in different
types of music, different genres of music.
S.O.: Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun.
S.D.A.: Well, we’re trying. It’s been a lot of years of
hard work, but we’re getting there.
S.O.: Did you know your husband before you started acting?
S.D.A.: No. I started acting… I’d done two movies before I
met my husband. I’d done… My first major movie was really my
breakthrough. The name of the movie was actually Breaking
Point and that’s how he recognized me the first time he saw
me. So I was already in the movie industry before we started
dating.
S.O.: And he did not know you could sing when you met?
S.D.A.: The first day we met, I actually grabbed his
microphone. I went to Jazzville (with) one of my friends.
And he was on stage with his sister and his sister’s
husband. I got on stage, I was carried away… I loved the
song they were doing. I got on stage, grabbed his microphone
and started singing with them. And at the end of the night
he came to me and said look, I like your voice. I hope to
set up my own band. Are you interested? And I said why not?
So, we started working together. The first time he saw me,
he knew who I was. That’s how come he let me take his
microphone like that on stage. By the time he heard me sing,
he saw another side of me and he liked it. That is the side
he prefers. He prefers me as a singer because he says I’m a
better singer than I’m an actress. He loves my acting but he
believes that I’m a better singer than an actress.
S.O.: So the poor guy saw you on stage and fell head over
heels in love.
(GENERAL LAUGHTER)
S.D.A.: Well, I always tell him that, but he still tells me
that I was the one that fell in love first. I’m not gonna
argue because I actually tripped when I saw him.
(MORE LAUGHTER)
S.O.: How sweet. Jaiye (that’s your husband’s name,
right?), I read somewhere that he composes in French,
Spannish and in Yoruba and English. Where did the French and
Spanish come from?
S.D.A.: He studied languages. He’s French graduate and he
lived in London for a long time so he did Spannish in
London. He studied that and a little Italian as well. Then
he came down to Nigeria and got into Unilag and he studied
French, so he’s actually a French translator as well.
S.O.: So are you picking up any of these languages?
S.D.A.: Well, sometimes, when we’re in a place and he
doesn’t want people to know what we’re talking about, there
are some words in French that he has taught me, so when he
says any words like that, I know what he’s talking about.
I’m not very good with languages, but sometimes when he says
things, he says something in it that makes it easier for me
to understand what he’s saying. I didn’t pique interest
early enough, so I guess that’s where my problem is. I can
read French, but I might not understand what I’m saying. And
then I can understand a little Spannish, but I don’t speak
very well.
S.O.: Your husband is obviously comfortable with you acting
because he’s also in the entertainment business, so this
rumor on the Internet that he wants you to quit acting is
just a rumor?
S.D.A.: I don’t know what they’re talking about. I have a
husband who always tells me that he loves women that are
hardworking and have a drive. He tells me if this is what
you’re meant for, if you’re very popular because you’re an
actress, (then) make the best of it while you’re young. He
doesn’t stop me from doing what I like to do. Judging by the
kind of negative publicity that I’ve got, the things that
some people have written about me, if he wanted me to stop
acting I would have stopped a long time ago, a long time
ago… He believes in me. He has faith in me and he knows that
I will go places if I work hard at what I’m doing. And he’s
not one to stop your dreams or put a stop to your career
because he feels or she’s my wife, she can’t be seen doing
things like that. He wants me to really really be big and he
encourages me, he helps me. So he has never told me to quit
acting.
S.O.: How does the acting part of you facilitate the
musical part of you?
S.D.A.: When it comes to music, my husband is more popular
than I am. He’s the one that people know as a musician. He’s
the one that they know as a family of music people because
of his sister and the others. So his fame gets more job for
us when it comes to the music aspect than my fame, because –
don’t forget a lot of people still don’t know that I am a
singer. It’s just recently that we released one of our
videos that people got to know. So they know him as the
musician. But when they see me performing with him, they say
aha, that actress o, she sings.
S.O.: A couple of questions from the members of my website,
Naijarules.com: you’re a mother and working lady. How do you
manage to remain so good looking?
S.D.A.: I don’t know, really. It’s God. I don’t have any
special routine and I’m not a designer freak. I probably
don’t know the names of these facial or body things… I think
I stay trim because I work round the clock. If I’m not
shooting a movie, I’m going to school or I’m running Synergy
or I’m running my African shop. I sell African things. I’m
doing one thing or the other every given time. Whatever
comes with it, I believe its God because I know I have good
skin and I don’t do anything special to maintain anything. I
just try to be very clean. I try to wash my face all the
time. The products that I use are basically the Ginseng
products and Vaseline. I don’t have any funny thing that I
do in the morning. I’m sorry, I might not be of help on that
because I think its all God.
S.O.: Another question from the website: Rattlesnake 4, is
it going to be released anytime soon? And are you still in
it?
S.D.A.: I’m still in the part 4, yes. But I don’t know when
they’re going to release it. I have no idea. Amaka Igwe will
be able to answer that question. I shot a lot of things and
it is not all of them that came out in the part 3, so I’m
thinking that they’re going to put all that in a part 4.
S.O.: Okay. Can you tell us about your African shop?
S.D.A.: Yes, Monafrique. I like to make things. I like to
create things and design things. And I’m also someone that I
don’t know how to buy gold or silver or diamond or things
like that, but I like a lot of beads and I like African
fabrics, so I just started traveling to Cotonou, Ghana, Lome,
and I just buy fabrics from all these African countries,
come back and design things – bags, table clothes, earrings,
moccasins – you know things like that. But I found out that
when I started wearing them, a lot of people liked them and
they would come to me: How did you get this? And I’m like I
made it. And they say instead of buying all these boutique
clothes that they tell you buy one for 15 – 20,000 Naira,
why don’t you make something simple for me, something nice,
and make an African handbag that will go with the fabric.
And I started making it for some of my friends. Before I
knew it, a lot of orders started coming in and things like
that. As I am now, I don’t even know how to satisfy all my
customers because so many people have been calling me and I
don’t know how many I can make at a time.
S.O.: You’re having a very busy life. What’s a typical day
like?
S.D.A.: Frankly speaking, I don’t have a typical day. I
know that from the time I wake up in the morning till about
10-11, I must make sure that in that space of time, I try to
see my kids for at least one hour. The rest of the time, I’m
either shooting a movie, I’m at the office working for
Synergy or I’m designing one thing or the other for clients
of Monafrique or I’m doing a write up for something I want
to send on the ‘Net, because there are some people that sent
me mail from London and tell me I want you to write this for
this magazine or things like that… I work on my computer.
I’m always busy. I always have one thing to do. And it’s not
just about the money. I think I’m a very restless person. I
can’t stay in one place a long time and I always want to do
something to keep my mind working and keep busy. I buy a lot
of books… I don’t have a routine life. I’m a very
spontaneous person. I can wake up and say okay, I’m going to
Ghana to buy fabrics.
S.O.: The movie industry in Nigeria is growing and that is
a good thing. But from all you have said so far, one can
tell that if anything happens to the movie industry, you
have so many other options, so many things you can do…
S.D.A.: You can say that because I have a thousand and one
other things that I do on the side, but believe me, if you
asked me, deep down inside, I would tell you that the one
that I really really really think I love most is the acting
and that’s the movie industry. I really wouldn’t want
anything to happen to it and I doubt if anything is going to
happen to it cos I want to be part of it. Really really grow
big and go international, you know… If you asked me to
choose between acting and everything that I do, I probably
will choose acting, although acting is the one that doesn’t
guarantee a steady income per se. But it’s the one that I
love most. At the same time, I get regular income from the
other things that I do, more than the acting thing. The
movie industry is very peculiar and I don’t like to slot
myself in every movie, so I try to do one in like two months
so people don’t get tired of seeing my face on every poster.
So when I do that, you know the income is not going to be as
regular as the next person who does movie after movie after
movie.
S.O.: What does the future hold for Stella the actress and
Stella the singer?
S.D.A.: Stella the actress and Stella the singer is really
going to be big by the grace of God. I want to be a source
of inspiration to everybody. I want to come to London and
say I want to do a show and people will say Oh God, Stella
is having a show, I must see the show. It’s not just about
popularity. I want to be able to affect the life of people
positively. I want to be able to affect the life of the
youth. I still see me being someone who is looked up to,
someone who does things just to better the community, the
society and things like that. Of course I want to be rich.
Believe me, I want to be rich. If not for my sake, at least
for my children. I just want to go all over the world. I
want to be remembered as that person who was really really
really good. I just want to be a good person.
S.O.: When you say you want to be rich, what is your
definition of wealth? How much is rich?
S.D.A.: I can’t tell you in numbers, but I know that wealth
to me is being able to afford anything that I want. I’m not
naturally a materialistic person. I’m not flashy, I’m not
extravagant or anything. I’m very simple. Rich to me means I
can sit down and a thousand and one people can come to me
and say we need to pay school fees, I need this, I need
that… I want to be able to say oh, take money. Do whatever
you want with it as long as it makes you happy. I want to be
able to take care of my parents. I want to be able to take
care of my cousins. I want to be able to spoil my kids. I
want to be able to tell my husband happy birthday and give
him the key to a car that he has been dreaming about or
talking about, you know? Things like that. I want to be able
to surprise my sister and tell them I’m giving you – your
husband and your children – an all expense paid trip to
Hollywood or Disneyland or something. I just really want to
make people happy. I like to be happy and I like people
around me to be happy, that’s it.
S.O.: Stella, I try to give every star I interview a chance
to react to stories in the media or anything that’s been
written or said about them that they feel is untrue and they
want to give their own side of the story. Is there anything
that has been written about you that you would like to react
to?
S.D.A.: I don’t really like to respond to such things
because my life will definitely go on. People won’t think
about me every day. I got tired or trying to defend myself.
Like a few weeks ago, there was (a publication) that came
out that said that on the 11th of December (2003), I was at
the Bar Beach and I was making out with Richard Mofe-Danijo.
And I thought that was so crazy because it was on the front
page and they gave date and time. That date that they gave,
my husband was with me at the beach. He was there with the
driver and (lost in phone static). They needed to fly to
Abuja and he called me and asked me where are you? And I’m
like, I’m shooting at the beach o. Will you come? And he
said no problem. And he came there. On that particular day,
I was there with all our friends and I didn’t enter this
particular car that they were talking about and you know
there were a lot of people on set. You had the director, you
had the cameraman, you had the technical crew, you had the
other artistes on set. …Where was the town that we did
whatever they said we did? My lawyer wrote them a letter
demanding a retraction or we would take them to court and I
just turned to the lawyer and said how many do you want to
fight? After that one, other magazines picked up on it and
started writing rubbish. And people just expected me to
break down or cry or things like that. Eventually we got
home and laughed over it because it was so crazy that the
day they decided to pick was the same day that my husband
was with me all through. People will always talk about. Be
good. Be bad. They will still talk about you. And it looks
like they need me to sell their magazine, well fine, if they
think that I’m that important. All I just say is that I’m
glad that the people that matter most to me know who I am
and they’re always supportive, they’re always behind me.
Things will come, temptation will come, the devil will try
to use people to bring you down and destroy you. If you’re a
child of God, as long as your conscience is clear and you
know that God sees all, just put everything in the hands of
God. As long as your husband needs you and knows that
whatever it is, you’re in it together, and he supports you,
I don’t need any other person to vouch for me or anything.
Because it will continue, not matter what I do or what I say
or how many court sessions I go for. They will still write
whatever they want to write. You can’t kill them and you
can’t stop them. I think it will be easier moving on.
And believe me, since that publication came out, I’ve been
twice a popular as I ever was. Nowadays, people are coming
to me wit scripts, with jobs… I’ve had people from London
telling me they want me to be their representative, they
want me to provide local programs for them. I’ve had people
telling me I want you to be my editor in chief, I want to
start an entertainment magazine. You know people said they
read about this thing and everybody wanted to know who
Stella was. And when they met me, its like ok I want to do
something with you actively. So it actually opened doors for
me that I didn’t expect. So I’m like okay God, if this is
the way this has turned out, I’m grateful.
Sola Osofisan: Thank you very much Stella.
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