While others can’t remember their sources, Chiwetel Ejiofor can and seems to be carrying it in his mind everywhere he goes. Hardly will one know he is Nigeria. Unlike others that have actually identified with their Nollywood counterparts, he hardly make contact. But he can’t forget his sources.
Few hours ago, he visited some places and memories lay hands on his breast and he said to someone who knows about history “I am Igbo”. He was in Savannah, Ga., and decided to have a tour of the city and while on the tour, something made an impression on him: a 19th-century slave pen, used to hold newly arrived Africans before they were sent to auction then he recalled, “a sequence of bolts high on the wall.”
He says, “I said to the guide, who didn’t know anything about my background, ‘What are those bolts in the wall? And he said, ‘That’s the extra chaining for the Ibos.’ And I said to him, ‘I am Ibo.
’ ” He paused, then continued: “That’s when you are aware that you were there as well. That it’s your blood, that someone with DNA close to yours was right in the middle of that situation. You recognize that you yourself were there. And that’s powerful.”
Delivered off by Nigerian parents in London, Chiwetelu Umeadi “Chiwetel” Ejiofor, (born 10 July 1977) is a British film, television, and theatre actor. He has received numerous acting awards and nominations, including the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2006, five Golden Globe Award nominations, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in Othello in 2008. He played Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things in 2002, The Operative in Serenity 2005, Lola in Kinky Boots 2005, Luke in Children of Men (2006), and Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave 2013
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