Veteran
Nollywood actress, Zainab Bukky Ajayi is dead. She was 82 years old.
The well respected actress died today
July 6th. She made her last public appearance at the 2016 AMVCA in March where
she won the AMVCA Merit Award amidst tears after been confined to a Wheelchair due to old age sickness which couldn't stop her from dishing out an emotional speech at the ceremony as silence enveloped the hall while it lasted
She was
born a christian but converted to Islam in the early eighties and chose the
name Zainab.
Ajayi
studied drama at the Institute of Drama, London. Her love
for the theater started as a young girl when her father used to take her to the
cinemas. Later,
the opportunity came for her to study in England. She was abroad for six years,
as a Federal government scholar.She left England and came back to Nigeria after
her education in 1965 and started out working in Nigeria Television as a
presentation assistant in 1966.
Afterwards, she
became a presenter and then a news reader. She presented a couple of children’s
programmes and ‘Nigerian’s Sketches’, a programme which was all about Nigerian
culture, and Diran Ajijedidun of blessed memory was her producer.She was later
transferred to Port Harcourt and later back to Lagos, and it was at that time
she started her acting career.
She
started with the ‘Village Headmaster’ in the 70’s,and she later got a role in
Amaka Igwe’s ‘Checkmate’. She has featured in so many home videos that she has
lost count. Shooting of international film Critical Assignment in South Africa,
is one of the events of her life that she will never forget. ''It gave me an
opportunity to see how it is done elsewhere, other than Nigeria, where a movie
is shot in five days,'' she said.
Her popular movies include: Elastic Light, Diamond Ring, Witches, Mother
of George amongst others.
May her beautiful soul rest peacefully in the bosom of the Lord and may God grant her children and entire family the strength to carry on, Amen! More photos below...
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