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born 1947 Nigeria
Chief Pete Edochie MON (born 7 March, 1947) is a Nigerian actor. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his portrayal of Okonkwo in a Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart.
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If you hurt the Igbo man once in politics, that is it; he will never allow you to hurt him again. He will recoil into himself and stay there. That's the average Igbo man.
Many women in Nollywood at the time we started acting film, have all left their marriages.
Seven years after Nollywood came and when I retired from broadcasting, I joined Nollywood.”
“I will not condemn polygamy, no, because people have their reasons for what they do, right? I have lived with this woman for the past 53 years.
No, why? I never saw my father beat my mother so I cannot say I learned from my father how to beat mama.”
Nobody has ever come in here to say ‘Oh please Pete stop beating her, you will kill her
It’s better or for worse, not for better for us
One takes a vow when one wants to get married, and it is for better and for worse. Not for better, for us. One will always think it is greener on the other side. That is the mistake we all make.
“I love women a great deal and I respect them. If I see any young man beating up a woman, oh my God. You know, I just think you don’t qualify to be a man
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