{"id":33463,"date":"2024-06-03T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=33463"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:39:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:39:34","slug":"patience-ozokwor-reflects-on-her-journey-and-rejects-imposed-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/03\/patience-ozokwor-reflects-on-her-journey-and-rejects-imposed-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience Ozokwor Reflects on Her Journey and Rejects Imposed Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 juice:w-full juice:items-end overflow-x-auto gap-2\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"c10e831c-c336-4271-989d-81618665f120\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 juice:empty:hidden juice:first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>Nollywood veteran Patience Ozokwor has shared insights into the early days of her acting career and how she navigated attempts to impose various titles on her. In a recent interview with Nwafo TV, the esteemed actress recounted how people tried to compare her to legendary actress Liz Benson, referring to her as the \u201cLiz Benson of Enugu.\u201d Ozokwor rejected this tag, emphasizing her uniqueness and individuality.<\/p>\n<p>Ozokwor also revealed that she was advised to use her husband&#8217;s first name, Edmund, as her surname. However, she chose to honor her husband&#8217;s family name, Ozokwor, reflecting the Igbo tradition of being married to an entire family rather than just one person. She explained, \u201cIn Igbo land, you\u2019re not just married by one man, you\u2019re married by a family. My husband\u2019s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say, \u2018I know where she comes from.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through these experiences, Ozokwor maintained her identity and honored her roots, reinforcing her position as a respected figure in the Nollywood industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood veteran Patience Ozokwor has shared insights into the early days of her acting career and how she navigated attempts to impose various titles on her. In a recent interview with Nwafo TV, the esteemed actress recounted how people tried to compare her to legendary actress Liz Benson, referring to her as the \u201cLiz Benson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33526,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33463\/revisions\/33526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}