People misinterpret my confidence for arrogance----Kenneth Okonkwo
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Interviews | Sat, 07 Nov 2009
Interviews | Sat, 07 Nov 2009
Kenneth Okonkwo
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Love him, hate him, Kenneth Okonkwo is in a world of his own. He launched himself into stardom with his A- grade performance, as Andy, in Living in Bondage, a movie directed by Okey Ogunjiofor.
The movie, critics agree, started the revolution in the movie industry that also gave birth to what is today known as Nollywood. In this interview with nfc, Okonkwo speaks on his new career as a lawyer, his new wife, Nollywood and more.
Read On.
You must be a superman joggling as an actor, student and now a lawyer…
With God, all things are possible because I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. So, that's just it. You are trying to pose a threat by using God…. Okay tell me, how could it be possible without God? When I was about embarking on all these, I kept asking myself if it was possible. So, it's just the Lord's doing.
When did you become a Christian?
I've always been a Christian from birth but I decided to have a personal relationship with God in 1994.
Was it after Living in Bondage that you decided to have this relationship with God?
Yes.
But the information I have is that you got born again when you met your ex-wife….
How possible is that? From her pedigree, she wouldn't associate with unbelievers. I got born again in 1994 and started having a relationship with her in 2000. So, that information you have is wrong.
Your ex-wife is a pastor's child …
My wife today is a banker.
I mean your ex-wife.
No, I don't want to go into that. She was my wife in the past and that means old things have passed away. I don't remember anything about my past now.
You said you're born again and the Bible you carry forbids divorce.
Well, the same Bible approves one husband to one wife and I'm married to one woman now. If you can quote the portion of the Bible you're talking about, then I'll understand. Secondly, I don't want to delve into my past. I've forgotten everything about my past for good. I believe in the present and the future.
Since you're insisting on the present, how are you enjoying your present marriage?
Fine, but I wouldn't want to talk about my marriage on the pages of newspapers. From what I know about marriage, I believe that marriage is a sacred institution which is meant for a man and a woman. So, the only thing I can tell you is that I'm happily married and that's all.
What informed your going into the legal profession, or have you left acting completely?
Acting has never been my profession but a hubby. That is why it has never been part of all the profession I've gone into. So, originally, acting is a way of unwinding and entertainment for me. But after Living in Bondage, people began to associate me with acting and it's something I love doing. Continued
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The movie, critics agree, started the revolution in the movie industry that also gave birth to what is today known as Nollywood. In this interview with nfc, Okonkwo speaks on his new career as a lawyer, his new wife, Nollywood and more.
Read On.
You must be a superman joggling as an actor, student and now a lawyer…
With God, all things are possible because I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. So, that's just it. You are trying to pose a threat by using God…. Okay tell me, how could it be possible without God? When I was about embarking on all these, I kept asking myself if it was possible. So, it's just the Lord's doing.
When did you become a Christian?
I've always been a Christian from birth but I decided to have a personal relationship with God in 1994.
Was it after Living in Bondage that you decided to have this relationship with God?
Yes.
But the information I have is that you got born again when you met your ex-wife….
How possible is that? From her pedigree, she wouldn't associate with unbelievers. I got born again in 1994 and started having a relationship with her in 2000. So, that information you have is wrong.
Your ex-wife is a pastor's child …
My wife today is a banker.
I mean your ex-wife.
No, I don't want to go into that. She was my wife in the past and that means old things have passed away. I don't remember anything about my past now.
You said you're born again and the Bible you carry forbids divorce.
Well, the same Bible approves one husband to one wife and I'm married to one woman now. If you can quote the portion of the Bible you're talking about, then I'll understand. Secondly, I don't want to delve into my past. I've forgotten everything about my past for good. I believe in the present and the future.
Since you're insisting on the present, how are you enjoying your present marriage?
Fine, but I wouldn't want to talk about my marriage on the pages of newspapers. From what I know about marriage, I believe that marriage is a sacred institution which is meant for a man and a woman. So, the only thing I can tell you is that I'm happily married and that's all.
What informed your going into the legal profession, or have you left acting completely?
Acting has never been my profession but a hubby. That is why it has never been part of all the profession I've gone into. So, originally, acting is a way of unwinding and entertainment for me. But after Living in Bondage, people began to associate me with acting and it's something I love doing. Continued
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wonders shall never end
someone | who-cares (Austria) | 11/7/2009 11:15:00 AM
Edible Human meat in high demand at owambe parties latelyYou are advised to watch what you eat (meat) at parties as some ritualistic celebrants now serve seasoned human flesh at parties and ceremonies. Rumors in Lagos, they say are usually 90% reality. Here is one dirty fiction-type story with some elements of truth in it.
A couple of party planners approached a set of cooks for their services, a day before the party they went to pick up the cooks with a bus to the venue (along Badagry-Expressway). On getting to a bushy path-way, the celebrant then told the cooks that where they were going to is a wealthy man’s place and they needed to be blind-folded (reason being that they didn’t want outsiders to come and meet the wealthy owner of the property and start begging him for money, so the venue had to be secretive). When they eventually got to the place, they were shown the peppers, tomatoes, seasonings and the likes. The cook then asked for the cow, they were then told the meat was at the other side. The traumatic shock that engulfed the cooks had no bounds, alas before them were 18 young girls (all blind-folded, waiting to be butchered), the celebrant then brought out his gun and ordered the butcher amongst the cooks to start cutting the girls to pieces, which they reluctantly did, there after cooking the girls using them for various soup. The celebrants then told the cooks in order to be sure the meals were not tainted that they must taste it, this they also had to do with a gun pointing at them. A bevy of jubilant crowd eventually stormed the party, requesting for plates after plates of various meals, stashing fried meat into their (African) bags (unknown to the crowd, the meat they were munching had been doused with ritual incarnations which was intended to tap into any good in them).
The cooks were eventually paid but before they left, they were taken to a shrine to swear an oath that no one will hear about what had just happened, doing this will only end their lives. Four of the cooks are already dead having told the police and their families. The only person that is still alive was in coma for several days, having told her pastors and was only revived last week, hence, the need for the testimony this past Sunday.
I think I’ll just eat nothing at parties then. Serve me nothing, no free lunch anyway.
please be warned
someone
someone | who cares-more (United States) | 11/7/2009 1:51:00 PM
stop this rubb**h, nonsense story teller, bad thing happen all over the world, no be only nigeria. be carefull where ever you are in the world, whether, 9jai,usa,london,china,anywhere its all the same.
WHAT ERRANT NONSENSE
Onome | Dublin-lreland (Ireland) | 11/8/2009 1:09:00 AM
Someone, l suggest you should take your fiction story elsewhere.What bullsh*t is this? Why should nfc allow such lunatic to post this kind of numskull story in every thread? I suppose you to take it to Nollywood producers or directors ,to make a movie out of your fiction story. You nitwit.
