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Tokini Peterside
Tokini Peterside-Schwebig is a Nigerian entrepreneur, business woman and art collector. She is the founder of ART X Collective, a cultural management company in Lagos, Nigeria. The company's flagship fair, ART X Lagos, is the leading international art fair in West Africa. Early life and education Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Peterside grew up between Nigeria and the United Kingdom, where she studied at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Westminster School. She graduated with a First Class honours degree in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2015, she attended the business school, INSEAD, where she obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and lived between France and Singapore. Career After graduation from university, Peterside embarked on a career in marketing, and subsequently became Head of Marketing at Moët Hennessy, part of the LVMH group, in Nigeria. She founded her company in 2012, and provided strategy, business planning and marke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian People
Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Baron Frederick Lugard, a British colonial administrator. ''Nigeria'' is composed of various ethnic groups and cultures and the term Nigerian refers to a citizenship-based civic nationality. Nigerians derive from over 250 ethnic groups and languages.Toyin Falola. ''Culture and Customs of Nigeria''. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 4. Though there are multiple ethnic groups in Nigeria, economic factors result in significant mobility of Nigerians of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds to reside in territories in Nigeria that are outside their ethnic or religious background, resulting in the mixing of the various ethnic and religious groups, especially in Nigeria's cities.Toyin Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983) is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California. Through her art Akunyili Crosby "negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds". In 2017, Akunyili Crosby was awarded the prestigious Genius Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Biography Njideka Akunyili was born in 1983 and raised in Enugu, Nigeria. She is of Igbo descent. One of six siblings, Akunyili Crosby's father, Chike Akunyili, was a surgeon and her mother, Dora Akunyili, was a professor of pharmacology at the University of Nigeria, and the former director of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration. Njideka moved to Lagos when she was ten years old to attend the secondary school Queen's College (QC) Yaba, Lagos. Her mother won the U.S. green card lottery for the family enabli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TEDxLagos
TEDxLagos is an independent TEDx event held annually in Lagos, Nigeria. Like other TEDx events, the event obtained a free license from TED to hold the conference, with organizers agreeing to follow certain principles. In 2018, the refreshed TEDxLagos hosted 12 speakers at the Muson Centre. History TEDxLagos was founded as an independent TEDx event by the original organizers of ''TEDxGbagada''. In 2018, TEDxLagos reviewed numerous candidates and hosted 12 speakers on August 18, 2018 at the Muson Centre, Lagos Island. The hosts for the pre-recorded event were Nigerian comedian Bovi and Award-winning media entrepreneur Uche Eze founder of '' BellaNaija'', who is also a TEDGlobal Fellow. TEDxLagos partnered with the Skoll Foundation and Union Bank of Nigeria for the 2018 event. 2019 * Vivian Oputa * Nireti adebayo * Nse Ikpe-Etim * Clare Omatseye * Olumide Soyombo * Alade Maryam and Okechukwu Emmanuel * Victor Sanchez Aghahowa * Ayorinde B James * Otto Orondaam * Isioma Williams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Afrika Shrine
The New Afrika Shrine is an open air entertainment centre located in Ikeja, Lagos State. It serves as the host location of the annual Felabration music festival. Currently managed by Femi Kuti (eldest son of Fela Kuti) and Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti, it is the replacement of the old Afrika Shrine created in 1970 by Fela Kuti until it was burnt down in 1977. The New Afrika Shrine showcases photo galleries of Fela and music performances by Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti thus making it a tourist attraction. On July 3, 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Shrine and pre-launched the Season of African Cultures 2020 in France. Macron said he had visited the Shrine as a student in 2002. See also *Felabration Felabration is an annual music festival conceived in 1998 by Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti in memory and celebration of her father Fela Kuti, a Nigerian musician and human rights activist known for pioneering the afrobeat genre of music. The one-week-l ... References Buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. ''Ex officio'', he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Prior to his presidency, Macron served as Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs under President François Hollande between 2014 and 2016. Born in Amiens, he studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University, later completing a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po and graduating from the École nationale d'administration in 2004. Macron worked as a senior civil servant at the Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an investment banker at Rothschild & Co. Macron was appointed Élysée deputy secretary-general by President François Hollande shortly after his election in May 2012, making him one of Hollande's senior advisers. He was appointed to the Government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls as Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modupeola Fadugba
Modupeola Fadugba (born 1985, Togo) is a self-taught Nigerian multi-media artist, living and working in Nigeria. Education Modupeola Fadugba studied engineering, economics, and education. She has received an MA in Economics from the University of Delaware, and holds an MEd from Harvard University. Her parents were Nigerian Diplomats, and the artist spent most of her youth in England and the United States. She is a self-taught artist. Her series ''Dreams from the Deep End'', which she developed during a residency at thInternational Studio and Curatorial Programin New York, was included in a solo exhibit at Gallery 1957. Career Her solo shows include ''Heads Up, Keep Swimming'' at Temple Muse in Lagos in 2017, ''Synchronised Swimming & Drownin''g at Ed Cross Fine Art in London in 2017, ''Prayers, Players & Swimmers'' at thCité internationale des arts in Parisin 2017, and ''Dreams from the Deep End'' in New York in 2018, which was reviewed in ArtForum International She has part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Wura-Natasha Ogunji (born 1970) is an artist and performer based in Lagos, Nigeria; she is of Nigerian descent. Education Ogunji received a BA from Stanford University in 1992 and a MFA from San Jose State University in 1998. Work and career Ogunji works in a variety of mediums but is best known for her performative and video-based works. Her artistic themes include physicality and the body, our relationship to space, memory, and history. Her recent work deals with women occupying the public space of Lagos. Ogunji has been a visiting lecturer at the Center for Art of Africa and its Diasporas (CAAD) at the University of Texas at Austin and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Art Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olu Amoda
Olu Amoda (born 1959) is a Nigerian sculptor, muralist, furniture designer, and multimedia artist best known for using relics of discarded consumer such as rusty nails, metal plates, bolts, pipes, spoons and rods to create sculptural figures, flora and animals to highlight Nigerians socio-political and cultural issues from sex, politics, race and conflict to economic distribution. He is the founder of Riverside Art and Design Studios in Lagos, Nigeria. Early life and education Amoda was born in Warri in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, in 1959 to a goldsmith father. He studied sculpture in Auchi Polytechnic in Auchi, Nigeria, in 1983, and in 2009, he earned a master's degree in Fine Arts from Georgia Southern University in Georgia, USA. Career Amoda is considered one of Nigeria's leading contemporary artists. In January 2020, he was announced the artistic director of ''Now Sculpture'' 2020 exhibition, by the Sculptors Association of Nigeria, for the 2020 National conference organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Barnor
James Barnor HonFRPS (born 6 June 1929) is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis.Alexandra Genova"Party time! The photographer who captured the other swinging sixties" ''The Guardian'', 29 November 2019. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing colour processing to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Ehikhamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian visual artist, writer, and photographer known for his expansive works that engage with multinational cultural heritage and postcolonial socioeconomics of contemporary black lives. In 2017, he was selected (along with two other artists) to represent Nigeria at the Venice Biennale, the first time Nigeria would be represented in the event. His work has been described as representing "a symbol of resistance" to colonialism. Early life and education Ehikhamenor was born in Udomi-Uwessan, Edo State, Nigeria, part of the ancient Benin Kingdom, known for its historical bronze=casting tradition. He was educated in Nigeria and in the United States. He returned from the United States in 2008 to work in Lagos. His grandmother was a cloth weaver, his uncle a photographer, his maternal grandfather a blacksmith, and his mother a local artist. Art and writing His work is strongly influenced by work done by villagers especially his grandmother. He credits this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nandipha Mntambo
Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982) is a South African artist who has become famous for her sculptures, videos and photographs that focus on human female body and identity by using natural, organic materials. Life Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland, Southern Africa, in 1982. She graduated with a master's degree in Fine Art (with distinction) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, in June 2007. She currently lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. Work philosophy In her work, Mntambo focuses on the human body and the organic nature of identity, using mainly natural materials and experimenting with sculptures, videos and photography. One of her favourite materials to use in her pieces is the skin of the cow, often also used as a covering for human bodies – boneless sculptures – and thus oscillating between evoking the garments that can be shod at will and the bodies that once contained living, breathing, masticating beings with four sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi (born 19 July 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000's, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human". Muholi was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2015. They received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in 2016, a Chevalier de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2016, and an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2018. Mulholi has a restrospective exhibition on at Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris from 1 February to 25 May 2023. Biography Zanele Muholi was born and raised in Umlazi, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Their father was Ashwell Tanji Banda Muholi and their mother was Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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