Popular Yoruba Actor, Sanyeri Shares His Grass To Grace Story

Nollywood actor who’s famous in Yoruba movies, Olaniyi Afonja , also known as ‘ Sanyeri’ makes shocking revelation while speaking to Saturday Beats recently.

The comedian spoke on things he used to do before he became one of the most popular actors in Yoruba movies. Things were rough for Sanyeri, he passed through the mud before he eventually rose to stardom.

According to him;

After I finished my secondary school education, I did not have a job so I delved into the theatre world. I did it for some time but I was not being paid even when I went everywhere with the group and was helping them carry their costume.
I had to learn how to repairshoes so I became a shoe cobbler. Eventually, I left Oyo town and came to Lagos to find greener pastures but still I was not earning anything from acting.

I became a mobile cobbler. I would put my materials in a wooden box, place it on my shoulder and start hitting it as I walked the length and breadth of Idumota. I would constantly hit my wooden box as I walked about to call the attention of people. Then nobody knew me so I kept hitting my box all over Idumota.

I remember I had a handkerchief I used tocovermy face because of my tribal marks. The reason I concealed my tribal marks was because the Igbo boys at Idumota had the belief that if they did not give their shoesto a Ghanaian cobbler, no one could do a better job.

If they saw my tribal marks, they would think I was one of the touts that would normally come to disturb them formoney for shop and they would not give me theirshoes to repair.

When I saw that being a shoe cobbler was affecting mycareer as an actor, I had to quit and face acting squarely. I thank God that good fortunes have come my way.

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