Popular Nollywood special effects artist, Onilogbo Hakeem, popularly known as Hakeem Effect, has shared how his career started as a dream.
Hakeem, one of Nollywood’s top special effects artists, revealed that the talent was repeatedly taught to him in his dreams until he mastered it.
According to him, Nigerian actor and producer Murphy Afolabi is the one who nicknamed him Hakeem Effect.
The artist made this revelation while speaking as a guest on a recent web podcast.
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He said, “I had a dream where someone held my shoulder and asked me to follow him. I looked up to see who it was, but couldn’t see the face because he was tall and white. That was how the journey started.
“He asked me, ‘ What talent do you have? And I said I could draw, and then he said, if you can follow me, I will announce you to the world.
“Along the line, I joined the chorister and then a drama group where I was appointed to provide special effects, even though I didn’t know what it meant then.
“While I was thinking of how to go about it, I had the dream again where the said man told me how I would achieve the special effect, and it was exactly as he told me in the dream.”
