Oluwasina argued that women prefer to offer financial or professional help to men over their female counterparts.
By Kehinde Okeowo
Nollywood star and movie producer, Bukunmi Oluwasina, has stated that she does not believe in the popular “women supporting women” slogan used in the Nigerian film industry, calling the phrase a facade.
She made this known recently during an interview with BBC Pidgin.
While expressing skepticism about the authenticity of female solidarity in Nollywood, the mother of one asserted that such support is often fleeting or insincere.
Speaking in Pidgin English, Oluwasina was quoted as saying: “You know say women supporting women for Nollywood na scam. E no dey always long. Even if they support each other, we know how e dey, but we dey see the men and dem dey do am. Everybody know say woman enemy na fellow woman.”
She continued, asserting that this trend extends beyond the film industry: “No be only for Nollywood. Women supporting women at some point, you go just see am. Even if dem talk say e dey happen, you go feel am say na scam. E no dey happen, and even if e happen, sometimes e no dey genuine.”
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Oluwasina then highlighted a troubling trend, saying women are more likely to offer financial or professional assistance to men than to their female counterparts.
“If you follow one woman talk, you go hear them talk say dem fit borrow man money make e start business, but to borrow fellow woman money make she start business e dey always hard,” she added. “I no know how the thing dey like that. I no fault anybody, but e just dey,” she said.
The thespian, however, noted that while many women achieve success through hard work and talent, their efforts are often overshadowed by stereotypes implying that every successful woman relies on a sponsor.
Oluwasina concluded: “Women dey industry wey no get sponsor, dem dey do the work, the work dey show, we know dem, we see dem and their work. But na other people wey dey under their shadow dey use am run their thing, dey water down those women effort, making it look like everybody get sponsor.”
