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Dakore Egbuson<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThis is how you know a celebrity who was once an Aje Pako,\u201d said Basket Mouth in a comedy show. \u201cIf when you grew up, NEPA comes to your house in the morning disconnects your light and carries away your wire. And, then, returns in the night to meet you light a candle in your house and blows it off, screaming, \u2018we said no light in this house!\u2019\u201d
\nDakore Omobola Egboson, an Ijaw from Bayelsa, didn\u2019t have such experiences. \u201cMy growing up was great,\u201d says Dakore. \u201cAnd I mean it, in the full sense of the word. I was
\nvery well taken care of. Sometimes people say I\u2019m spoilt.\u201d From Corona Primary School in Gbagada, Lagos to Federal Government College Bauchi, and to A-Z international, Ajao Estate, Lagos, she carried her musical, athletic, and acting skills. At presently she has a Diploma in Mass communication, majoring in PR and Advertising.
\nLight and lovely Dakore, is in her mid-twenties, and she is a consummate actress, singer, TV presenter, and an amateur photographer. She is the first child of her family and she\u2019s got four younger ones: three boys and a girl. She lives with her mum in Lagos, while her father resides in New York, USA.
\nIn this Saturday Sun Style expose, Dakore, (her native way of saying a child who takes after her father) talks about her person and her persona; her fans and her future; plus, her smarts and her style.
\nA Dakore day
\nLike the sticker on her Benz 190, \u2018everyday is a plus\u2019 for Dakore. The first thing she does every break of the day is \u201cpray. I don\u2019t talk to anyone, but I talk to my creator because I believe for everyday you wake up you have to give thanks.\u201d After giving thanks, she takes tea with mummy, \u201cI have green tea; my mum drinks coffee.
\nWe chat; talk about what we are going to do that day and all that. But I won\u2019t say I have any typical day, because, sometimes, if I am on set, I just have to go off to work. But if some days like now when I am just chilling, I could just have a lazy day, and enjoy it. I try and catch up with friends, do other stuffs, and maybe check my emails.\u201d
\nWhat I write on autographs
\n\u201cI haven\u2019t being to the market in a long time, the last time I went, that was January, at Tejuosho Market, I got mobbed. I enjoyed it, but I was a bit scared. So my mum was like, \u2018don\u2019t worry, I go to the market; you cook.\u2019\u201d This tells how difficult it is for Dakore, no matter how hard she tires, to go 30minutes outside her house without one or two persons pumping into her, \u2018Hi, I love the way you act, could you please write something here?\u2019
\nSo what does she write on autographs? \u201cI just write whatever I feel from the fan who wants the autograph. But generally I write \u2018Thank you for your love and support. Peace.\u2019 \u2018You mean a lot to me; all the best\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re wonderful;\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re great\u2026\u2019 Just whatever vibe I get from the fan, then I write something special.
\nI don\u2019t think fans will like something you just write for everyone, you know. If I were to get an autograph, and I\u2019ve gotten some autographs from some really cool people and they wrote something individual to me, and I appreciated that more than if you just wrote at random, \u2018Thanks a lot,\u2019 or something. I try and do a little extra for them. They are the ones that watch the movies; they\u2019re the ones that make me have the career because they like what I do. I don\u2019t take them for granted \u2013 not for one minute. I don\u2019t but I have a fan club yet, though I\u2019ve had offers from my fans to do a fan club for me but because I want to have my website up first; I\u2019m constructing it right now. When it\u2019s ready, I\u2019ll have a special segment for fans.\u201d
\nNegative and positive vibes
\nYou don\u2019t expect everybody to like Dakore, do you? She shares a negative experience: \u201cI only had such experience once. It was a group of girls, they were like, \u2018you ain\u2019t s**t.\u2019 I thought to myself, \u2018They have to be really bitter to tell me that.\u2019 But I just said, \u2018its okay, you\u2019re entitled to your own opinion.\u2019 It helped me because that was when I knew everyone couldn\u2019t like me and I just shrugged it off. But I get more positive feedback than negative. For every negative feedback, I get a hundred positive. I would be lying if I say I don\u2019t get any negative. What I do is, I don\u2019t let it get to me.\u201d
\nAfrican yet modern
\n\u201cI love African stuff, you know, even if it\u2019s not print, but it has to have that African thing. It\u2019s my persona; it\u2019s where I am mentally. I have emancipated myself from the mental slavery that comes with the western way of doing things. I\u2019m an amalgamation of those two. Seeing that I\u2019m contemporary \u2013 young, and I am African inside. My ear rings are cowries, the top has cowries: it\u2019s contemporary but with an African edge. I\u2019m kind of the meeting point between the two. We are all products of the colonial mentality but you can also make your own twist on it. Living in London made me realize who I was more than when I was here. Because when you are away; when you see yourself in a sea of white people, you become more aware of whom you are.
\nAnd her hair\u2026
\n\u201cI guess that also influenced my hairstyle, you know. I just got tired of perming my hair and I got all locked up. It\u2019s four years this April that I have been wearing the dreads. It\u2019s not the easiest hairstyle to maintain but it\u2019s less stressful. because I don\u2019t have to go to the Saloon all the time, sit under a drier all the time; it\u2019s basically something I just have to wash once a week, get it twisted once in two months, at a professional saloon. It\u2019s quite easy and it\u2019s natural. And it\u2019s so long. I\u2019ve never had my hair grow this long while I was perming it. So I think something is to be said for being natural.\u201d
\nMy nails
\n\u201cMost of them are my nails the ones that are not my nails are those I fix to make it even. I keep long nails for work, basically. Left to me, I wouldn\u2019t keep them long because when I was in London, I had to wash, I had to do everything, but here, because I\u2019m the oldest I have younger ones, they\u2019re ready to do anything I want. Its only when I\u2019m cooking that\u2019s when I put my hand in water or wash some of my clothes. For work, it makes you look well groomed. Not to say if you have the normal nails, you don\u2019t look well groomed. It\u2019s just that it makes you look more elegant too, yeah.\u201d
\nMaking up
\nA closer look at Dakore gives away an innate beauty. With a bias on her face alone, three out of guys can\u2019t resist the shape of her nose, four confess her oval lips are her most inviting facial feature, and three say her eyes are what they wish their girlfriends had.
\nFor Dakore, good looks are not all make ups. \u201cI am not a make-up freak, but I love to play with make-ups. Ever since I was a kid, when my mum would be doing her make-up, I\u2019ll just look and say \u2018I can\u2019t wait for the day when I can do my own.\u2019 And, because I wear make-up a lot when I\u2019m working, I\u2019ve been able to perfect it. People always say, \u2018your make up is really nice you do it for yourself?\u2019 I like make ups, but I\u2019m not crazy about it. I\u2019m a bit edgy with it but not too much. I don\u2019t like wearing too much make ups. I like looking very natural.
\nAge at first love
\n\u201cEighteen. I finished secondary school when I was fifteen, so my Dad said, \u2018you want to tell me you want to go to the university now? You must be joking.\u2019 So I was doing JAMB lesson then, and he (first love) was in the same lesson with me and that\u2019s it. (What was your first kiss like?) It was very nice. That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say. It was too long ago anyway. And it was with my first love. (Where he is now?) Happily married to a wonderful woman, they just had a kid, and I saw them and I was very happy. (And you still talk?) We talk\u2026we talk, no hard feelings at all.\u201d
\nMy Wedding day, how I want it to be
\n\u201cWhat is most important to me for my wedding day is that I would be marrying the right man, because at the end of the day, a wedding day could be fantastic, but the actual wedding could be crap. So I\u2019m more concerned about having a blissful marriage. I actually prefer a low-key wedding. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll get my wish because my mum would definitely want everybody that is somebody to be there. Left to me, I\u2019ll want it to be low-keyed. I just want it to be a day where all my friends and all my family and his family just merge, because there would be that close knit feel rather than a carnival. God ultimately knows what it\u2019ll be like, but I know it would be beautiful, I don\u2019t know how; I don\u2019t even have a colour scheme on mind or anything like that. I\u2019ve not thought of it to that point, but I just want everything to be beautiful, and with the right person.\u201d
\nWho\u2019s the \u2018rightperson?\u2019
\n\u201cI can\u2019t tell you his name, I can\u2019t tell you what he does except, well I can say is his a very warm person, very supportive of my work, and I just happy we met. We met somewhere in Lagos. We just started seeing each other. He is Nigerian. That\u2019s what I\u2019m going to say, but he is not from Bayelsa State. In three years time, I would hopefully be at the top of my game professionally, you know, and in every aspect. Settled, happily married with children. I would like to have just three kids \u2013 boys and girls. I don\u2019t mind two boys and a girl, or girls and a boy, as far as I get both sexes.\u201d
\nHow photogenic is she?
\nKelechi Amadi-Obi, one of Nigeria\u2019s prime proficient photographers, who Dakore described as \u2018a professional that pays attention to details\u2019 responds: \u201cShe is extremely photogenic. She\u2019s one of the extremely photogenic actresses we have around. When she is in front of the camera, you just snap away. She\u2019s almost like the top professional models we have around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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