Peace Anyiam-Osigwe

Peace Anyiam-Osigwe MFR (30 March 1969 – 9 January 2023) was a Nigerian filmmaker and entertainment executive who has been called "the queen of Nollywood films". She was the founder of globally acclaimed film ceremony, Africa Movie Academy Award.

Quotes

• I think people have to kind of hear the fact that I started writing when I was nine years old. I want people to know my story and all the things that I do. I realize that sometimes, it is important to tell your own story, in your own words. So, that you can also have young people realize that you don’t give up. You just have to keep dreaming and realizing those dreams.
  • "Peace spoke about her perspective to lifeSunnews (30th September 2018)

• Life has taught me gratitude. A few years ago, I got sick; my skin changed colour. I just woke up and my skin started changing colour and just about finding out what it was, I lost my brother, Michael, who was running the Foundation. He went for something and then, they shot him. So, my perspectives in life changed totally in terms of living our life just as it is and in turn I realized that everyday could be your last. I don’t think anything can change you more than something that is significant. He had just been with me in the hospital. When you go through such experiences like that then live your life for the best; don’t live it for anybody else. Don’t try to prove any point to anybody but just be as good as you can to the next person.
  • "Peace spoke about her perspective to lifeSunnews (30th September 2018)

• So, I do a lot of things with my hands; from Aromatherapy to reflexology, massage. I have different escentric things that I do. But I enjoy readings, watching films and listening to a lot of music. So, when I’m writing, I intend to listen to music. When I’m selling my fabrics, I’m having fun as well.
  • "Challenges and frustration pursuing AMAA Project- Peace Anyiam-Osigwe Vanguard (February 22,2014)

• 2013 was a very difficult year for us logistically. But interestingly, it was one of the years that we planned very well;there were a lot of issues, people claimed they were strangled and I begin to wonder how one could come into Nigeria with one way ticket. It’s not possible.
  • "Challenges and frustration pursuing AMAA Project- Peace Anyiam-Osigwe Vanguard (February 22,2014)

• Piracy will never go away. It is even what made Nollywood films popular.
  • "Piracy made Nollywood Films popularThecable (23rd of September 2018)