In an interview with Pulse, Nigerian actress Anee Icha, well known for her roles in Namaste Wahala (2020) and Castle & Castle (2018), spoke about her experiences with sexual harassment in the Nigerian film business.
She talked about her six-year acting career, as well as her experiences with sexual harassment and how she overcame peer pressure to submit to it.
She said:
I have come to a place in my own evolution as a person, that there are things that I will do and things that I will not do and I will own the things I do and I will not apologize for the things I do not do.
If I am not interested in you, you can come with anything on the planet earth, it is a matter of value for me because if I am giving myself to a person, there has to be something behind it and for me, it is deeper than fame, a phone. Even if it is just pleasure, pleasure is deeper than a material thing. So it is unfortunate that some women have to bend to that and they don’t feel like there is an alternative and I hope we come to a place where we realize that we have a duty over our bodies.