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She is a round, powerful, voluptuous woman with a wide body and a matriarchal temperament, and her followers shamelessly call her “Omosexy”. In reality, Omotola Jolad Ekende (36), known as the “black Angelina Jolie” in Africa, is a Nigerian heroine, a star of more than 300 feature films, the embodiment of Mother Africa, and a public figure. His own reality show “Omotola: The Real Me” is broadcast in 52 countries and is watched by more than 50 million viewers around the world.

Last year, the Nigerian was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine, alongside Pope Francis, Beyoncé, Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton. At the Meet the Winners dinner, Omotola was photographed between Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg, to whom he gave them a detailed account of the phenomenon of the Nigerian film industry. Today, Nollywood is the world’s second-largest producer in terms of film output (2,500 per year), behind India but ahead of the United States.

These stories are simple and “low-budget”, shot in a few days and released directly to the market on DVD or on the Internet. They flood the African continent, but also reach the millions of African immigrants who have settled in the United States, Europe, Britain and Canada. Omotola, a Yoruba, is its symbol. Her wide and voluptuous hips are a sight to behold. “They like rounded figures because in Nigeria the image of a strong woman is always associated with a thick body; they are successful and dominant women,” noted one of the actress’s collaborators. She takes her unabashed sexual power to the extreme, displaying a license plate with the word “Omosexy” on her car.

“The public has known me for a long time, they have grown up with me, they can identify with my life because I am an actress and besides, I am a mother of four children… It is true that I am not a This is very common in Africa,” Omotola told Le Monde.

In television interviews, Omotola appears to be a talkative and entertaining man who usually ends his sentences with a huge volcanic laugh.

I work at night

He began his career as a model and made his debut in cinemas at the age of 17. “It was not easy. For a young girl, devoting herself to a film shoot was a taboo. We were considered prostitutes…”, explains Omosexy. Her life also contains some tragic traits that are very popular with consumers and the basis of many modern fairy tales. Born into a family of potential, with four siblings, her childhood suffered a serious setback after her father died in a road accident. It happened when the girl was 12 years old, on a notorious African road that was just a strip of red dirt cut by a bulldozer in the jungle. Omotola had to make a living.

As a teenager, he worked at night to support his family. “If my father hadn’t died, I wouldn’t have become an actress,” recalls the first African woman to have more than 1 million Facebook fans. Today, 1.3 million people go online to view photos of the Nigerian star at social events and the colorful dresses she wears. An unusual feature is that most of her poses include a rear view, showing the effect of the costume on the actress’ hips and buttocks.

Besides this sensual component (common in Africa, as it is masked by European customs), Omotola’s image has a unique quality, associated with collaboration and condemnation of injustices in his country. His messages often warn online about the immunity enjoyed by the most powerful and the abuses suffered by citizens of the young Nigerian democracy. Corruption, conflict between Catholics and Muslims, inequality, severe pollution from leaks in the Niger Delta and the presence of the Islamist guerrilla group Boko Haram in the north obscure Omosexy’s glittering vision of prosperity in Africa.

But she wants no part in politics. He despises money and tries to stay close to his admirers, he says, giving them a message of “hope.” “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” he shouts.

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Omotola works with organizations that help the poor and has been an ambassador for the United Nations World Food Program since 2005. He has also campaigned with Amnesty International (AI) to reduce child mortality in Sierra Leone. A few years ago, under the aegis of AI, he demanded that the Nigerian government and Shell Oil Company “pay and clean up” the pollution caused by oil activities in the Niger Delta. The environment, social injustice, children’s and women’s rights, Omotola flies the flag… there, almost everywhere, there are a lot of them.

She is a phenomenon in Nigeria, Africa’s most densely populated country with 175 million inhabitants and undergoing a spectacular economic development based on oil.

And, although only 50,000 Nigerians living in Spain in Africa know her, Omotola is a first-rate personality. Nigerians settled in our country consider her a queen and know all about her life and adventures. It is a case of success. As in our folklore, Nigerians, while creating colorful and intricate hairstyles, tell about her husband Matthew Ekeinde, an airline pilot, and the couple remarried in 2001 in a ceremony that took place on a flight.

Nigeria, with a growth rate of 7%, has also become a hotbed for speculators. Lagos, the economic capital, is bustling with nouveau riche. Huge billboards stand next to shanties, advertising the latest SUVs and luxury cars. Of course, Omotola drives a jet and lives on Victoria Island, an exclusive development of the jet. In Nigeria, series such as “The Island” depict the lives of nouveau riche who travel in Porsche Cayennes, shop in the UAE, and show off their wealthy lives in front of their barefoot neighbors. “The show shows the vanity, pride, corruption and madness of that world. But I am a rebel. I can afford it all, but I don’t want it. I have a house there, but I don’t live in it. I don’t want to be rich… He admitted in an interview that it is difficult to succeed without being corrupt or stealing. When people see my struggle, they know that they can have a career, have a family and fight for a just cause,” Omotola said. “I continue to stand with the people,” said the oil woman.