Mama G has she is fondly called is an A-List Nigerian Actress who has featured in over 250 movies till date.

Patience Ozokwor comes from the humble family of Ngwo. She was born 25th of March 1958. She had her elementary education at Abimbola Gibson Memorial School, Lagos and relocated to Enugu during the civil war crisis.

She had her higher education at Teachers Training College, Afikpo and then proceeded to IMT Enugu where she studied Fine and Applied Arts but majored in Graphics. She taught for five years and then ventured into broadcasting.

She started acting back in Afikpo during the days of her teachers training. Her first acting role was playing William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Her crew did a solid job with the movie that they were invited, all around the Southeastern Nigeria to re-stage the play. She achieved huge popularity from the play to the extent that people started calling her Hamlet.

Patience got married at 19 and worked with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Enugu but was retrenched when all medium wave band stations were shut down. Leaving her shortfall behind she proceeded to another broadcasting facility where she began acting in radio dramas.

She got her big break after featuring in a commercial. Chief Zebrudaya of New Masquerades had called her over to be part of the commercial which was being produced by the Anambra Government. The aim of the commercial was to discourage citizens from going into a trade without acquiring education. She played the wife of Pete Eneh in the commercial.

The commercial was a hit and then she achieved lots of popularity. Pete Eneh would later cast her in a lead role for his television series Someone Cares. Some A-list Nollywood stars who were on the series were impressed with her acting skills.

She received celebrity status after working on the 1999 movie, Authority.

Unfortunately for her, she lost her husband some years back.

Patience Ozokwor is being referred to as Mother Africa because she always plays a mother figure in almost all her movies and serves as a role model for young girls across Africa.

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Mama G

Mama G, G for General