Nigeria female entertainers and nudity

Our country, Nigeria, like many other African countries, is a morality-preaching and decency-teaching ecosystem. The decline in the instillation of the culture of modesty and chastity, which has always been considered paramount until the advent and sweep of technology in the entertainment stratum, is becoming more disturbing.

Ajibade Alabi in this special write up looks into the nudity in Nigeria industry especially home video and chronicles why the tread despite our culture against it still continue to thrive in a profession that dwell more on beauty and sexy shape than what one have upstairs

When artistes started painting picture of semi nude African women, the society tolerated the development and controlled the flow granting its accessibility only to a select audience.

Then, magazines correspondents and cartoonists entered into the scene, introducing soft porn and caricatured depictions of half and fully naked women which soon became the mainstream.

While there were little or no cameras, theatrical plays usually were done on the stage to be viewed by a live and sitting audience. Nudity was either totally prohibited or showcased to censored addressees.

But from a long time ago, the music industry has had a different take. It has, in some ways, promoted nudity which was present in night and strip clubs as well as brothels where sexually-suggestive and vulgar music enjoyed massive playback and live gigs.

From dance bands that use women as objects of entertainment to earn credit from their spectators to the musicians of our day and age that pose women as insignificant s*x toys to be exploited, to the obsession that has possessed virtually all.

Enter Nollywood actresses and producers who seize the opportunity of audiences who consider any movie that does not portray pornography as ‘drab’,

Nigerian entertainers, like their foreign co-practitioners have been seeking ways to lend credence to the saying that‘s*x sells’. And they would stop at nothing to prove their point, even if it means demoralizing the society.

Having said that; I would like to shift the spotlight in the direction of Nigerian entertainers, particularly the female folks who practically spend hours in front of the mirror just to ensure everywhere else is covered except their privies.

Some people believe that those bevies of beauties who would have better appraised the African woman identity have both failed themselves and the entire womanhood.

Some of the thought-provoking questions raised are: ‘What is the pride in a woman exposing her stateliness for the world to see on gratis ground? What is ‘dope’ about a lady showcasing her b**bs and b*tts in a music video for chicken change?

What message, other than decadence and immorality can there possibly be to it when she and her contractors have no control over who can view the content?’

Not too long ago, the media went abuzz over a controversial Nollywood actress and busty video vixen, Cossy Orjiakor, and her narration of how her b**bs fell out of her bra and how a male passerby helped her repack it, plus that she would not breastfeed her children but suck out the milk for them using a sucker. What a tragedy.

Cossy Orjiakor

She wouldn’t allow her children enjoy breastfeeding directly from her because she wants to avoid ‘saggy’ them out of fashion but she can of course afford to put them out on display at any and every opportunity that presents itself. Things like those make Mama Peace break down in tears and cries, ‘Chai! Dia ris God Oh!’

Multiple award winning modish producer and actress, Omoni Oboli, is not guiltless in the fashion court for illegally influencing the sights of men with her somewhat unacceptable advertisement of her cleavages and belly b*tton on replete occasions, especially on the red carpets.

Omoni Oboli

The mother of four is a reputable producer and screen goddess whose identity commands respect any day, anytime, which makes one wonders: ‘what more attention could she be looking for?’

Songstress Debora Oluwaseyi Imoleayoayeraye Itinuoluwa, popularly known as Seyi Shay, is no doubt a queen in the kingdom of musicians. She is also famous for being the lady feared by all men in the country even with her seductive’ dress sense.

Even after Maheeda, the self-professed gospel singer said she was turning a new leaf and trying on something nobler like reducing the amount of her naked self she puts on display, the mother of one still has not gotten the meaning of decency in modesty right in her fashion dictionary. As a matter of fact, it is almost like she is getting better in the reverse.

Tiwa Savage is surely a wonderful chorister and dancer whose stage manship always leaves her audience in dearth for more; but controversies and criticism are not her enemies but friends.

Tiwa Savage

This friendship was consolidated when she released the music video for her hit song, ‘wanted’ and the mouthwatering dance she performed on stage during the Star Trek event held at Ekwulobia, in Anambra State in May, 2014, that virtually left her ‘treasure island’ bidding ‘sight’ visit from all.

When fans and the media bombarded Ruth Kadiri as concerning the raunchy pictures she published on the internet, she explained by saying, “I wanted to do a photo shoot and I did it.”

Ruth Kadiri

But that does not totally wave the truth embedded in uneasiness expressed by mothers and home builders who didn’t share her sentiments.

Interestingly, while others are walking in the shallow waters of soft porn and wedging darts of criticisms, the CEO, Invisible Twins productions, professional pornographic actress, producer, songwriter and director, Judith Opara Mazagwu, popularly called Afrocandy, leaped into the bank of the pool of nudity with reckless abandon

While I am asking ‘how much can make a woman bare her secret arsenal to world’, Adokiye Yvonne Kyriam, who went all the way to put her melon on the international screens for all to see said she was paid $200,000 and a Mercedes Benz G Wagon. Don’t you wonder: ‘which is worth more, the price or the prize?’

For Xrisabi Dondada, an upcoming singer otherwise known as X-risabi, she imagined the best and cheapest ticket to the land of stardom was nudity on the national scale but before many even got to hear her name in fame; the notoriety of the diva had spread like wildfire on the internet and in the prints.

Having a curvaceous and contouring shape as part of her package is definitely a plus for Nollywood actress, Anita Joseph.

But what raises the brows of concerned parties is the gravity with which she prides over the massive endowment attached to her behind about how it makes men drool in lust for her. But that is trivial compared to how much she loves to flaunt her asset with scanty clothes around them.

Indeed, ‘words aren’t just enough’ to describe the seductive prowess of Nigerian singer and vocalist, whose voice range covers an entire three octaves, Aituaje Vivian Ebele, also known as WAJE.

Aituaje Vivian Ebele

She is talented and she possesses a golden heart that cares for people, especially for the less privilege. But like her song’s title reads, ‘I wis,’ I wish she does have to put out the pictures of her unclad self in the open view of the world.

Emerging the winner, Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) in 2007, Munachi Abii filled her gap in the timeline of history and savored the attention and affection accompanying it.

But, all was not so well when she released pictures of her during her 25th birthday, which many considered ‘inappropriate’ and subsequent ones. Though she did not seem to be bothered with what the hoi polloi thought or said but that is just ‘campaign after election’.

Ifeoma Okeke

Ifeoma Okeke is a big, busty and beautiful Nollywood actress. She is proud of herself and work, and many of her fans and proponents are, too. But not everyone thinks she is such an all-star actress due to the heavy show of bare skin, especially around her ‘mammary mountains’.