Nigeria at last will be the first country on the continent to host the NYFA team to an intensive one month hands on training workshop on Film making, Directing, screen writing, Editing, Broadcast Journalism, 3D animation and master courses exclusively designed for marketing communications executives. Classes start February 1, 2010
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba, in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka where she attended primary and secondary schools and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale."
Activists in Nigeria have said they will maintain pressure on Royal Dutch Shell over alleged human rights abuses - despite a $15.5m payout by the firm to the families of protesters executed in the oil-rich Niger Delta during the 1990s.
Their promise on Tuesday came a day after the energy giant agreed to settle out of court a lawsuit accusing the firm of complicity in the executions of nine human rights activists in Nigeria's Ogoniland region. Continue reading here
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Wangechi Mutu in Vogue April 2009 issue photopgraphed by Annie Leibovitz
Wangechi Mutu (b.1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000).
She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on PET film, then adding detail with photographic fragments of idealised women collected from print magazines.
The figures generally feature grotesque distortions of form and skin texture, which critics read as commentary on a variety of feminist and racial issues ("of the history of women's representation, of cultural migration, global identity; of a litany of historical violence and destruction; of colonial legacies, exoticism and voyeuristic fascination"). source
I saw this video over at clutch magazine and I really like it. Its by French-Nigerian artist Asa. Asa was born in Paris. Her early life in the City of Light left the little girl with only the vaguest of (happy) memories, since she was no more than two years old when her family returned to live in Nigeria. Paris was just one stage in the life of her courageous and hard-working parents. But her fate was tied up with the city : it was to Paris that Asa returned twenty years later and where her life as an artist took wing.
Asa grew up in Lagos, a city teeming with people and buzzing with energy but also home to a deep-rooted spirituality. Islam thrives shoulder to shoulder with Christianity in an atmosphere of tolerance, the young imitate America, and the turbulent city moves endlessly in an infernal and yet harmonious ballet of love and hate, laughter and violence, poverty and wealth. Read more here
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