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Mrs. Abimbola Fashola addressing participants during the Women In Film Forum at the Colonades Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos.



Mrs. Abimbola Fashola (2nd L) flanked by Mrs. Bisi Fayemi (L), Mrs. Joke Silva (2nd R) and Mrs. Funmi Olayinka during the Women In Film Forum.

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Jun 16, 2010 - "Uphold The Dignity Of Womanhood", Mrs Fashola Tells Women Artists

Lagos State First Lady, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, told women artist in Nollywood to uphold the dignity of womanhood by not involving themselves in films and advertisements that expose the delicate parts of the female anatomy.

Mrs. Fashola, who spoke at the a seminar with the theme "Nollywood Women and the Dynamics of Representation", organized by the African Women Development Fund in Lagos said the women actors should see themselves as representatives of the female gender and, therefore, use their appearances to project the dignity of womanhood.

The First Lady, who confessed that she enjoys the home videos being produced in Nollywood, however, said the indecent exposure of women in some of the films makes them repulsive and embarrassing especially when being watched in the company of under-aged children.

She commended what she described as the great work being done by the Nollywood actors and producers but advised that they should introduce changes; by presenting the way things are done in our contemporary society along side the old cultures of the people.

Earlier in her remarks, the Executive Director of the African Women Development Fund, Mrs. Bisi Adeleye Fayemi, said the seminar was meant to enlighten the women in the fil industry to use their talents to project women as strong and being able to take their destiny in their hands.

She said in her conversation with women abroad, they had always expressed admiration for the Nollywood films but wondered why women who appear in these films are always represented as either witches or other representations that degrade womanhood.

According to her, "What we intend to do here at this seminar which includes film actors, producers, consumers, NGOs and journalists, is to put our heads together and brainstorm to see how we can use the potentials that we have in this industry to tell the African story".

She thanked the First Lady for sparing the time to honour the invitation of the organizers expressing the hope that the participants would aschieve the aims and objectives for which it was organized.