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Patience Ozokwor
Photograph via Wikimedia Commons
Film & Stage Landmark

Patience Ozokwor

born 1958

Mama G — more than 250 Nollywood films

Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Nigeria Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.

Why they are here

For thirty years she has played the mother-in-law everyone fears, well enough that the character has a name of its own across West Africa.

Patience Ozokwor, known everywhere as Mama G, was born on 14 September 1958 and is a Nigerian actress, singer and filmmaker.

Across more than three decades and over two hundred and fifty Nollywood films she became one of the industry's most enduring figures, chiefly through her portrayals of domineering matriarchs and mothers-in-law.
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