Jenifa’s Diary Debutes On TV

Oge Okoye

Funke Akindele’s
Jenifa’s Diary, a comedy TV series debuts in Television starting from April following demands from Television Watchers. Jenifa’s diary is a comedy television series that depicts the hilarious and amazing adventures of Suliat  Ak Jenifa: A secondary school drop out turned hairdresser who lives in a backwater town called Aiyetoro.
Jenifa is loud, over bearing and very opinionated. She nurses the ambition of leaving her community and making something for herself, she is always trying to prove her worth and wants to be recognized and ‘feel among.’ Her competitive spirit with her peers comes to the forefront when she realizes many of her friends in Aiyetoro are in higher institutions.
Jenifa is motivated to leave her community and pursue her dream of attending a higher institution and becoming a huge success and to enhance her status in Aiyetoro. Jenifa manages to borrow and even swindles one of her illiterate Aiyetoro ‘ toasters’ to raise enough money for her exodus to Lagos. Jenifas diary follows this epic comedic journey as she drives in lagos and lets all hell loose.
Jenifa’s diary will be another innovative ground breaking Nigerian comedy concept Jenifa is particularly attached to her diary in which she writes down her daily experiences and uses the medium to involve the audience in thoughts and actions. Everything that is written in the diary including the grammatical errors, is transcribed unto the screen and the medium of Jenifa’s voice over sharing her thoughts further magnifies her guirks and eccentricities.
With unexpected turn of events, Jenifa’s adventures will take her from the streets of Lagos to high class shows to the corridors of universities which she does not attend from crowded school hostels to Adult education classes and back to the streets of Lagos all in her quest to gain admission into a higher institution.
Jenifa’s diary still opens to corporate sponsorship, promises to be one of the greatest in Nigeria’s Television history.
The film is directed by Edmund Eraibe, it is funny, educative entertaining with prestine performance TV history.
It is a perfect set with robust cast and cameo appearances from Banky W, Beverly Osu, song stress Waje, Wunmi Obi DJ Spinall, Amaechi Muanagor, Ali Nuhu and Alex Ekubo. Other talents include Lola Chukwu, Kunle Afod, Juliana Olayode Tope Adebayo, Pa Ojoge, among others.