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YOWERI MUSEVENI: SHAME Please Send Submissions to Achoices@A-Choicesmazine.Com of UGANDA the FALLEN GIANT 19 (Opinion) 50 a TRIBUTE to an ICON A-CHOICIssue Number .6, FEBRUARY 2021 ES The African Lifestyle Magazine AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH -OKAWA SHAZNAY ....A NOLLYWOOD ACTRESS www.a-choicesmagazine.com Contents ABOUT US A-CHOICES -The African Lifestyle Magazine Cover Page LEE RIGBY MURDERER 01 FIGHTING FOR LIFE WITH COVID-19 27 The most valuable -CHOICES magazine is an online African lifestyle magazine for ordinary‑ed‑ About us -Interview with Art Dealer 03 Angelina Liakova Valentine’s 30 A ucated reader in English. It is not entirely about entertainment but covers gift other broad topics including business and economy(market) arts & culture fashions, UK to support rest of the Meet the team world to find COVID-19 virus personality stories, sports, etc. It is a channel through which we celebrate African 04 variants 38 achievers at home and in the diaspora. A‑CHOICES hopes to entertain, empower and inspire Africans around the world. HOW TO PREVENT Meet the team YOURSELF FROM CATCHING 05 COLD 40 Write for Us We’re accepting submissions from writers, thinkers, makers, scholars, and readers of EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FAREWELL MY DEAR WITH NOLLYWOOD ANGELA MERKEL online publishing and editorial work. We re currently accepting submissions for our ACTRESS -OKAWA 06 42 next Issues . We accept submissions on a rolling basis, and generally don’t close sub- WHAT HAPPENS TO A WHAT DONALD TRUMP’S missions until halfway through a given issue, so there are no set closing dates. LEGACY WILL BE FAMILY BUSINESS IN We do not accept work that has been previously published o blogged. 17 DIVORCE? 45 YOWERI MUSEVENI: SHAME Please send submissions to [email protected] OF UGANDA THE FALLEN GIANT 19 (opinion) 50 A TRIBUTE TO AN ICON AFRICAN MEN AND ADOPTION 54 22 COPYRIGHT NOTICE: All contents of the Service are :Copyright © 2020 Tai Media Limited 2 Rillington Gardens, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes MK4 2EB Buckinghamshire ADIEU NOLLYWOIOD A TRIBUTE TO A MEDIA ACTOR, ERNEST ASUZU All rights reserved. 24 GIANT-LARRY KING 59 MEET THE TEAM EDITOR’S LETTER Gbenga TJ Okunlola Abiola Okunlola-Anjorin Dr. Justina Mutale Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Fashion /Beauty Editor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] London,UK Lagos,Nigeria London,UK Dire Sonia Yobo Bilbao Bureau Chief Seyi Awoleye [email protected] Akosua Darko Managing Editor Spain Senior Writer [email protected] [email protected] Los Angeles,CA London, UK Emmanuel Anya elcome to the February edition in which, not surprisingly, we look at all things Valentine’s.I must admit, I’m not usually Contributing Editor Toyin Olamigoke Abiodun Emmanuel Adeleye a big fan of the annual love fest – to me, it has, for many years, seemed little more than an opportunity for those who [email protected] W Fashion Editor Senior Photo Journalist Lagos,Nigeria [email protected] [email protected] sell us all manner of things associated with affection to tug at both our heart strings and our purse strings. Ah, February. The Lagos,Nigeria London,UK smell of chocolate (and bitterness) is in the air as millions prepare for the most romantic day of the year. When people envision Valentine’s Day, they usually picture couples spending quality time together, trading gifts, eating sweets–and, being intimate.I imagine I’m not the only one who grew up equating the phrase “being intimate” to “sexual Albena A. Jones intercourse.” Ibukun Babatunde Asssociate Editor Dr. Funmi Beckley [email protected] Senior advert manager For a long time, I’ve felt the pressure from others around me to engage in some form of sexual intimacy. I internalized this Special Project Co-ordinator Sofia,Bulgaria. /Project Co-ordinator [email protected] [email protected] pressure, so I started to engage with people casually. While it was fun, it wasn’t really fulfilling. After exploring that world I found Abeokuta,Nigeria Lagos,Nigeria that it was more rewarding for me to talk to my friends on the phone for hours. Despite all of the pressure, I realized that my relationship with intimacy was a perfectly normal one. There’s nothing wrong with it! My favorite definition of intimacy is the seventh option on Dictionary.com:The quality of being comfortable, warm, or familiar.This broad definition helps to emphasize Akintunde Oluwafemi Samuel Graphics Designer that intimacy can mean many different things for different people. Intimacy can exist with or without sex, and all forms of Bunmi Johnson [email protected] James Osondu intimacy are valid. This February, don’t be afraid to explore what intimacy means to you. New York Bureau Chief Lagos,Nigeria. Sofia Bureau Chief [email protected] [email protected] Elsewhere in this edition, you’ll find our main cover girl the beautiful and talented Nollywood actor Okawa Shaznay who USA Bulgaria took time out of her very tight schedule to grant this exclusive interview. Her attitude of mind over matter is really rather inspiring. I hope you enjoy this month’s edition and I’d love to hear from you about anything you think we should be covering. Get in touch on our social media pages. Thank you. Nneoma Ugenyi Milena Nikolova Bureau Chief Contributing Editor Calgary, AB, Canada /Media Consultant Editor in-Chief [email protected] [email protected] USA Sofia,Bulgaria Gbenga Teejay Okunlola Interview EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NOLLYWOOD ACTRESS -OKAWA SHAZNAY By: Gbenga Teejay Okunlola. London. UK kawa Shaznay is a Nollywood actress,model and a television personality from Cameroon and the first from her Ocountry to successfully break into Nollywood with her role in the blockbuster movie Iyore; starring alongside Rita Dominic and Joseph Benjamin. She has enjoyed an impressive career. She is very beautiful,talented and naturally gifted in acting. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Texas Southern University in Houston,Texas,USA.In this exclusive interview with A‑ CHOICES,the versatile actress speaks about the new direction of her career,the industry,childhood,her relationship and lots more... A-CHOICES: Hi Okawa!Thank you so much for It has always been a childhood dream and I’m inspired speaking with me today,To start things off, can you by so many talented actors across the globe. It’s really tell me about your background and your growing up hard sometimes to name a specific person, I’m just so years? fascinated by the art and the craft. All about acting, OS: Basically, I am from Cameroon. I am from the I just love it so much, it has always been a childhood English speaking region of Cameroon. I grew up there, dream of mine. did my primary and secondary school education in A-CHOICES: Modelling and acting together can be Cameroon and then I did my university studies in both physically and mentally demanding. How do Texas at Texas Southern university where I studied you go about handling both roles considering that accounting and there as well in Houston, I always took you have a daily life to manage as well? part in different African stage play productions and OS: First of all, I no longer model as a profession. I used things like that so that’s how I kind of dabbled into the to do commercial print modelling back in Houston, whole branching off into doing Nollywood films and years ago when I was in school. That’s when I used to things of that nature but then I had always loved doing dabble into a lot of commercial print work in Houston movies at a very young age. So, yeah, that is my subtle while I was at the university. Right now, I don’t really do background. a lot of modelling, I’m solely an actor professionally and A-CHOICES: How did you get into acting? Was it a that’s my main role and yes, I can do some modelling childhood dream; were you inspired by someone or on the side if need be but right now, I’m really an actor something? and an actor only but then, being an actor is actually physically and mentally draining. It requires a lot, OS: Hmm... Growing up in Cameroon, I had always you become somebody else each time and we spend enjoyed watching movies. I loved, I was just fascinated so many hours on set, working with our heads and about films and you know, back then growing up, we running lines and all of that stuff, its also very physically used to watch a lot of Indian movies, Western movies, draining. You might say yes, I’m doing acting alone but Chinese movies, and things like that. Then, all of a trust me, it’s not easy, we’re always busy, we’re always sudden one day, I came across my very first Nigerian filming, we’re always switching up from one character home video and because of my love for movies, I was to another so its very demanding and can be quite really stunned by the fact that I could see people who draining but then its the job, that’s how it is. How I looked like me, whose culture kind of resembled mine go about handling it, I just try as much as possible to and I could just see myself in them and automatically, give myself sometime in between characters. I try not because I loved watching movies so much, I thought to to jump from one script to another, right up the bat myself: Hey! I can possibly be able to do this if I can see (immediately). I try as much as possible to give myself people who actually do look like me doing this thing some breathing space if and when I can.
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