Indeed success has many brothers. You can include sisters and cousins. Both on the maternal and paternal sides. If you havn't heard of heard of Chinwetel Ejiofor then you must have been sitting on a long thing. Or maybe you are not from Enugu state...
On Tuesday, the Enugu state government placed a full page adv in The Nation Newspaper to congratulate British actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Yes, he had done so much worth commendation.
The acclaimed British actor beat Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to win the Leading Actor award at the 2014 EE British Film Academy Film Awards, BAFTAS, on February 16.
Ejiofor in his acceptance speech did not remember the Enugu State government, nor did he remember Nhis native land, as he thanked Steve McQueen, director of ‘12 years A Slave,’ the cast of the movie especially Michael Fassbender, his mom, and his late dad.
Ejiofor was born in London to Nigerian parents. So yes he has dual citizenship. His father, Arinze, was a doctor, and his mother, Obiajulu, was a pharmacist. His younger sister is CNN correspondent Zain Asher.
Ejiofor’s father died in 1988, when the actor was 11, during a family trip to Nigeria for a wedding. Both were on their way to Lagos after the celebrations when their car was involved in a head-on crash with a lorry and Ejiofor’s father was killed. The actor always identifies himself as a British citizen in the public glair.
We wish 'our brother' well and hope that in March, he would win the oscar awards too, because he has nominations.
But we seriously think that placing full paged ads for people who do not appreciate nor read it amounts some waste...don't you think so too?
A Congratulatory message on the social media works...if you ask me...But then again who is asking me?
Congrats to you sir. You have shown your boundless attitude to the world.
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