Julius Agwu and mum
The celebrity edition of the SuperMom reality show
has kicked off, with emotional, heart-rending stories of various
Nigerian celebs and their mothers, narrating and re-enacting their
experiences.
The first two episodes were aired on Sunday, June 10 and June 17, 2012, and featured comedian Julius D’ Genius Agwu and singer Olu Maintain
and their mothers. Both mothers told amazing stories of how they
single-handedly struggled to take of their children in tougher times.
According to Julius’ mother, ‘Julius started hawking at age six because he was born into a poverty stricken home in Choba, Obio/ Akpor Government Area of Rivers.‘ The
comedian’s father was a bricklayer and his mother was a petty trader,
who was also involved in fish farming and susbsistence farming. She
said she ‘wanted him to become a carpenter because he was so
troublesome. The struggle was tough and he had to help contribute to the
livelihood of the family by selling pap.’
According to Mrs. Agwu, Julius often
went to school late, as he would wake up at 5am everyday to hawk, and
after school, he’d continue hawking. She says that might have been
part of the reason, indirectly, that he is such a successful comedian
today. ‘For going to school late, he had to stay in front of the
class as ordered by the teacher, to entertain his colleagues and
teacher. Though it was meant to be a punishment, but those days of
facing the class to entertain them was a preparation for an art that
would make him a reference point.’
For singer Olu Maintain, growing up
wasn’t that hard, as he came from a middle class home and his mother was
a civil servant. But his parents’ disinterest and denial in his chosen
career made him sell his mother’s jewelry.
Olu says ‘I sold my mom’s gold set to buy studio equipment’. In relation to this, his mother said, ‘I
recognized with the benefit of hindsight, the fact he did it was
because of his passion and love for music. Unlike other mothers that
would have beaten the daylight out of the child, but I had no choice but
to support his career with the little I had’.
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