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Tope Akintayo

Tope Akintayo is a Cultural Manager, Anthologist/Curator, Creative Director, and Publisher with special interests in the arts, creative industries, classical and contemporary culture, and sustainability.
46 Articles

Amanda Kandawire-Khoza: The Pilot Who Runs a Thriving Art Practice

Craftsperson. Tick. Digital illustrator. Tick. Pilot. Tick. Entrepreneur. Tick. Community organizer. Tick. Amanda Kandawire-Khoza ticks all the boxes and more.…

Tope Akintayo 19 Min Read

Ganiyat Sani wants to champion global representation of Sahel African Art with Gazelle Creative Collective

“So many artists have the talent, but they do not know about scaling their art into mainstream acceptance.” Ganiyat Sani…

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Azuka Muoh’s art explores pertinent issues with symbolism and language

Azuka Muoh was recently listed as one of the top 10 up and coming Black artists to look out for in 2022.…

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For artist Matthew Eguavoen, the highest calling is to ignite change

Despite being a self-taught artist, Matthew Eguavoen, a full-time contemporary painter from Nigeria, has placed himself in the glorified league…

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Harry Odunze tells the real African story with photography

Harry Odunze, a photographer and creative director from Benin, Nigeria, started photography because he fell in love with its vocabulary.…

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Iyanu Adebiyi creates poetry as a tool for personal and interpersonal healing

As opposed to finding poetry, Nigerian poet and spoken word artist Iyanu Adebiyi would argue that poetry found her. Poetry…

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Creativity is a lifestyle for multi-disciplinary artist Bertha Onyekachi

For Bertha Onyekachi, creativity is a lifestyle. She has always been very crafty and artsy. As a kid, her dad…

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Ope Adedeji finds home in uncertainty

Ope Adedeji's story, Women Who Bleed Colours, was shortlisted for the 2018 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction, and Finding…

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Elise Boulding’s 200-year Present, a Lesson on Intentional Living

As I was writing the concluding paragraphs of an article about digital strategist Sola Mathew's 6-step formula for happiness, I…

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Insight and Humour in Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime

Trevor Noah is an African-American comedian who just wrote a book chronicling, mainly, his childhood in South Africa as an…

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