Jenifa's Diary


Jenifa's Diary is a Nigerian television comedy series, created by Funke Akindele. The series is part of the Jenifa franchise, based on a naive and funny character of the same name. Jenifa's Diary has 19 seasons and is currently active and ongoing.

Premise

Jenifa’s utterances contain both ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ speech acts.
The series tells the story of a native village girl Jenifa who desperately wants to get out of her ratchet way of life. In her desperation, she leaves her village and goes to the city of Lagos in order to get a proper education. Toyosi, an old friend is left with no choice than to accommodate her despite the visit being unannounced.
Jenifa is unsuccessful with her education but she gets a job at Nikki'o salon on the Island with the help of her friend Kiki, becoming very successful in her hairstyling career.
At Nikki'o salon, she meets another stylist, Segun, who becomes interested in her. She at first rejects him, but later accepts his proposal and they broke up again, He then goes to America.
Marcus, who was helping Jenifa to get a new job after she been sacked from Nikki' O Salon, He gave a gift to Jenifa, A salon in The Mall of Lagos who she later called " Jenifa's Hair Place" His ex-colleagues from Nikki O' who were close to Jenifa: James, Sam and Adaku were employed and new staff arrives Eliza, Hassan and Pauline "PawPaw".

Cast