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They both have tiny frames but they are giants in their chosen career.Aki and Pawpaw are the petit Nollywood stars who have turned their physical disabilities into creative tools in the entrtainment industry.The two actors,who are usually paired for roles in movies.

Aki
Chinedu Ikedieze (aka Aki)the older of the two was born into the family of Mr and Mrs. Michael Ikedieze Ogbonna.He hail from Iluoma Nzeakoli in Bende local government area in Abia State. After his primary and secondary education,he proceeded to IMT Enugu where he studied Mass Communication.Acting is a talent that God deposited in him right from the cradle.He satrted during his secondary school days,he was a member of the Art and Dramatic Society.He got his greatest opportunity in his first year(August, 1998)at IMT,where he met a friend whom he told his desire to become an actor and to discover more about the Nigerian movie industry.

As God would have it,the discussion coincided with an audition slated somewhere the very next day and he promised to take him to the place and the following day,they went to the venue of the audition at a popular hotel on Ogui road in Enugu.The audition was for a movie titled Evil Men 1 $ 2 and luckily for him,he got a role. That was exactly how he started and since then he have been actively involved in it.

He had his major break in 2000 with The Last Burial.After the movie,he went to Port Harcourt and people wanted to literarily steal him and this was before Aki Nu Ukwa, which eventually brought me to limelight.


Pawpaw
Osita Kenneth Iheme hail from Mbaitoli Local Government area of Imo State.
His parents are Mr Herbert Iheme and Mrs Augustina Iheme,he come from a family of five;four boys and a girl and the youngest of the five siblings.Like Aki,Pawpaw is equally the only member of his family who is short.He attended College Primary School in Abia State and presently studying Mass Communication at the Enugu State University.In 2001,he auditioned for a part in the movie Cold Blood and succeeded.He was then paid N5,000 for his supporting role and since then,he has been making waves in the industry.

The Nollywood twins met each other at an audition in 2001 and since then,they have become inseparable friends.Both of them said they are more like brothers than colleagues as they share the same flat,height,weight and talent,so either both of them are cast in a movie or neither.They first paired in Aki Na Ukwa and their performance in that film took them to the limelight.In September 2004,Aki and Pawpaw went to America’s New York Film Academy to brush up their acting dexterities.They are grateful for the opportunity fame has given to them to travel around the globe to meet role models like Will Smith, Eddie Murphy, and Gary Coleman among others.

The pint-sized Nollywood actors,Chinedu Ikhedieze(Aki)and Osita Iheme (Pawpaw) have been through a lot of heat from Marketers and Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) due to complaints by parents,they are concerned about the immoral roles played by Aki and Pawpaw in movies,claiming that it has negative influence on their children and be discouraged from roles that do not portray good morale to their viewers,especially the teenagers.This is because they are role models and ambassadors to innocent teenagers out there who think they are age mates.