Popular Nollywood actress and producer, Funke Akindele, has opened up about her decision not to practice law despite being a certified lawyer.
The box office Queen during a chitchat with BBC Yorùbá revealed that she studied law at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) to warm the heart of her late father.
She stated that despite having huge passion for acting, singing, and dancing, her late father always wanted her to be a lawyer.
Funke Akindele said she ended up studying law to grant her father’s wish and then returned to pursue her passion for acting.
In her words:
“Truly I studied law at the University of Lagos. My father wanted me to be a lawyer. When he was alive he was always saying ‘You will become a lawyer’. I just wanted to act on stage. I wanted to sing and dance,” she said.
“I would say okay, let me study this law and give it to you. When I study this law I will go back to my acting.
“I never regretted studying law because it reflected in my works. Because I love criminal law so much. I like a law where someone errs against the law and is sentenced. All the investigations.
“If you notice, you will see that I usually add up what I have studied in my work. Law and my work can be hand in hand. And I never regretted studying law. But I have not been practicing law.
“Nowadays I have been thinking about it. I can do it.”
9 Responses
That’s one of the mistakes parents are making. Forcing children to study what they want, and not what the child want.
God bless you for following your calling.
Law of wetin Nigeria get law and inec rig election in favor of tinubu and still no law is against him
You’re doing very well in your chosen field, congratulations
Well it happens like that for some people and thank God your choice becomes very good and a life changing one for you and your family,congratulations
And thank God today God bless the work you choose to do
You have tried enough you can do it you want you like you cause you respect your father
but this action by parents spoil the career of their children
it is good for u to allow your child to pursue his or her dreams without bringing in yours
Maybe she just needed the certificate, and thats all
She showed that she respected her father, after fulfilling the wishes of her father, she went to fulfill her own.