GENIVIEVE INTERVIEWED ON CNN - AGAIN

Nollywood star actress was once again interviewed by global news channel CNN during the week. Fans will recall that in November 2010, she was interviewed on CNN Connect. This time around, she appeared on a segment on the program African voices. Dressed in a lovely dress by Lisa Folawiyo's fashion house, Jewel by Lisa, she fielded questions from CNN anchor Pedro Pinto on Nollywood, Nigeria, and acting. Speaking in a easy comfortable manner, she answered the questions presented to her articulately and competently. Clearly Genevieve is becoming an International spokesperson not just for Nigeria, but also Africa as a whole. Clearly she is using her celebrity status to project the image of Nigeria and Africa positively.

The program will air again at the following times

• Sunday, March 27, 2011: 0800GMT, 2100GMT
• Monday, March 28, 2011: 1030GMT, 1730GMT

Transcript (Excerpt)

GN – Every aspect of you know, human nature is in every Nigerian. The good, the bad, the ugly, it’s just like another New York. You know, Nigeria is fun to be honest. But we’re not the worst people. All we have people talking about when it comes to Nigeria is crime and fraud, and that’s just a very, very, minute number of people. Nigerians as a whole are very confident people, I believe we’re confident, I believe we’re very resourceful and we are very hospitable when it comes to visitors in the country.

PP – When you look at you’re country, what are some of the things you love about it, what are some of the things that you would like to change?

GN – I like that as Nigerians as we are, we have some sort of neighbourly love that we don’t understand, we have a way of coming to the rescue of complete strangers, we do have that bond and I think it has to do with our background and how we are raised and how Nigerians AS a whole have been made to be morally. It’s like you have a moral duty to your society, to yourself, to your family so it’s like everybody’s business is everybody’s business. It’s a bad thing sometimes, but it does have its good sides. You know, so that is something that we are. We probably don’t know as a people and if we don’t know we should know it now, it’s a good thing. What I don’t like about Nigeria…man, I never diss my own country, man! You know, what ever negativity is in a country is in every other country; it’s in every other part of the world. So, the thing is everyone JUST needs to be treated as individuals and not a collective nation. You don’t judge one person or judge one person by another persons faults. So, I just take every Nigerian the way I see them. I would never live anywhere else to be honest, no.

PP – Really?

GN – No, I grew up in Lagos, I was born, bred there. I don’t see myself leaving that town anytime soon. I can work anywhere else, but in terms of living, I’m used to Lagos, I’m sorry!