IT’S GREAT HAVING YENI KUTI AS MY LOOK-ALIKE- BOSE OLUBO

Though they are neither of same parents nor even Siamese twins the daughter of the late Afro Beat  Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Yeni and Nollywood actress cum producer, Bose Olubo have a striking semblance that most twins don`t possess. It comes to a stage where both ladies who are from different backgrounds could easily be mistaken for each other. Never-the-less, it was a wonder that despite been in an industry so close to each other and where Bose also do music, it took more than 30 years for both ladies to meet. Before then, according Bose, “We never met nor were aware of how we look alike. Anyway, it`s great having Yeni Kuti as my look-alike. Although I do frequent the African Shrine once in a while I didn`t know the daughter of my music idol is just like me facially.

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While explaining further how she got to know of the rare semblance with her and Yeni, Bose said, “It makes me happy to see my look alike in Yeni. A lot of people stop me on the road asking if I was Yeni kuti`s sister. The day she saw me she just kept looking at me. She was dumbfounded while I was just smiling. Even when I was at the Yaba College of Technology, Yaba everybody asked me the same question. The first day I came to the shrine and was parking, people were calling me aburo aunty (aunt’s younger sister). It’s interesting. Since then, I like her and she likes me.”

Of whether she has been embarrassed in public for her striking semblance with Yeni, Bose replied, “No! I just smiled when people ask if I were Yeni`s sister.

Of her Nollywood career, the first woman cinematographer and editor, narrates, “Bose Olubo is an actress and singer, and I am one of the youngest pioneers of Nollywood. I mean I have been there for 22 years. I started with music. I do sound tracks and jingles at Klint Studio, Surulere. I was there with Segun Arinze and Yinka Davies. I always wanted to be a musician. I didn’t know I will go into acting until I met Prince Alade Aromire and that was how it started.”

Of Nollywood and its seeming slow progress, the first producer that gave Saidi Balogun his premier movie shoot, got philosophical, “The only thing about us is that we want to be Hollywood right now. We want to be like America. When we talk about improvement we should include time. Imagine America has being doing this thing for the past hundreds of years. We should not be expected to be like them in one day. We still have to deal with poverty and education. We still have to invest a lot of money into it, getting our people trained more in it too. For what we have done in the last 20 years, I am personally impressed.”