Why I Left - Joseph Benjamin

Nollywood actor and television host Joseph Benjamin enjoyed a very successful and lucrative career here in Nigeria for many years in front of the screen. Then all of a sudden, he left the industry and relocated abroad.

Now, the actor is back and explaining during a new interview with The Will Downtown, why he left and why he's back now. Here's what the actor had to say.

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Speaking about why he left Nollywood but has come back now, Joseph Benjamin said:

JOSEPH BENJAMIN: It was born out of a need for personal growth. I had been yearning for more from where I stood. I needed more, and I felt like I had to break out. Mentally I needed a reset and career-wise, I wanted more. I remember at the time when I was done here; our content had not started enjoying the luxury of streaming that they enjoy today.

The most we had then was Iroko and YouTube.

Before then, it was DVDs, and then we eventually evolved to cinemas. I wanted more.

There was a nudge in my heart to go out, explore, and get more.

All of these were by design because God orchestrated them. Not just I was pursuing growth in my career, wanting more and getting out of my comfort zone as it were, He was orchestrating everything. It was more of a spiritual and psychological journey for me, so I had to go through an evolution where I had to reinvent myself. It was all by design; God had to keep me through the process of evolving and renewing me. And that’s why getting to that point and being there took a process of dying to everything that I was, letting go of all that I ever knew to be a thing. I had to let go of any form of entitlement that I had in my mind in order for me to evolve and get to where I needed to get to. That break for me was more like a pointer to show that there’s more to what you can become, but you, first of all, have to let go of what you were so that you can evolve to get into the space where you can be effective to become all that you want to become. And that is what I had to go through. So it took a breakthrough away from me leaving here for the past six years, and going through the process of evolution was hard. It was hard to let go of everything so that I could become because letting go is the hardest thing that you can ever do. But guess what? You cannot become if you don’t let go. And I had to learn all of that. I had to understand that, learn that, and it has given me an entirely whole new perspective on life, my career, and all that concerns me. I’m a different person mentally.

Every other person’s story is different because I remember I had this entitlement mentality when I first got there. I felt like I was the coolest person to come from Nigeria and all of that stuff. But I had to understand how the system there works. It does not care who you are.

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