Category: Art, Media & Entertainment

Emmanuel Okoro has won the top prize at the inaugural edition of Africa Fashion Up, a showcase for African designers, with his Emmy Kasbit men’s and women’s collection made using traditional West African weaving techniques.

Nigerian designer Emmanuel Okoro was one of five designers shortlisted for the event in Paris, organized by the Share Africa platform in partnership with Balenciaga, which will mentor the finalists for six months.

Emmanuel Okoro was joined by Guy Fabrice Sullivan, the Ivorian designer behind the Zaady label; Zak Koné, also from Ivory Coast, founder of evening wear brand Pelebe; Baay Sooley and Laure Tarot, the designers behind Senegalese street wear brand Bull Doff, and Natasha Jaume and Carina Louw, founders of South African women’s wear brand Erre.

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Nigerian feature film Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) has emerged Best Feature Narrative at the 2021 BlackStar Film Festival.

The Best Experimental Film award went to Letter From Your Far-Off Country directed by Suneil Sanzgiri.

Dear Philadelphia by Renee Maria Osubu and Elena Michèle Stephenson won Best Short Documentary, while award for Best Short Narrative went to Lizard by Akinola Davies Jr.

Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing With Fire won the Best Feature Documentary award.

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Nigerian feature film, Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) has emerged winner of the Jury Award at the 11th edition of the World Cinema Amsterdam Competition, in the Netherlands.

In their debut film, twin brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri painted a realistic portrait of everyday life in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, by telling the stories of the fortunes of two of its inhabitants, who both dream of a fresh start in Europe. And members of the World Cinema jury chose the GDN Studios-produced film as the winner of the World Cinema Amsterdam’s biggest prize.

For emerging winners of the Jury Award, the Esiri brothers not only received the award, they also received a cash prize of €5,000 for a future film project.

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Temilolu Fosudo has emerged winner of the 4th Beeta Playwright Competition organised by Beeta Universal Arts Foundation at the grand finale held at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos on 4th of August 2021.

Temilolu Fosudo received 10 million Naira as prize money from the sponsors for his play titled: “Black Dust”.

Kalayingi John-Africa’s Orchid, made her the first runner-up while the second runner-up was Ibukun Fasunhan who entered with the play, Beertanglement and like Fosudo, had reached the final stage of the competition in 2020.

Others in the shortlist include: Adesewa Akinyemi’s Your Nemesis, Chinazom Otubelu’s The Old Man Must Obey, Yemi Akande’s Flowers Will Smile Again, Gladys A. Nwaokoma’s Ya Gazie, Nyakno James’ Gaddo, Ifeoma Igwe’s Aye Wale and Olaide Mohammed’s The Indigent on the Throne.

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Nwachukwu Benedict has emerged winner of the Babcock University Students’ Association (BUSA) drawing competition 2021.

Quansah Mishaella emerged as second place winner while Ekpo Idongesit emerged as third place winner.

Nwachukwu Benedict receives ₦40,000, Mishaella receives ₦30,000 and Ekpo receives ₦20,000.

The participants made a video of themselves as they made their drawings.

The drawing competition was themed: “The effects of E-learning on students in Nigeria“.

Olufisayo Babatunde Soyombo has emerged merit award winner of the 2019 Karpoor Chandra Kulish International Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Olufisayo Babatunde Soyombo known professionally as Fisayo Soyombo is the Founder/Editor of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ).

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Anita Abada’s ‘Efun’ has emerged winner of the Special Prize Award For “Health Educational Film For Youth” at the 2021 WHO Health For All Film Festival.

WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the announcement in his speech posted on the UN health agency website.

Ghebreyesus said Abada became winner of the special prize for a health educational film for youth, titled: “Efun”.

The DG said “Efun”, directed by Abada, focused on the challenging topic of Female Genital Mutilation.

Ghebreyesus, said the winners would receive trophies and a grant of $10,000 to invest in further audiovisual production on health today.

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