Category: Art, Media & Entertainment

Winners have emerged at the 2020 PwC Media Excellence Awards.

The PwC Media Excellence Awards celebrates and rewards excellence in business reporting in Nigeria. The competition is open to professional journalists on a full time employment or freelancers, working in Nigeria, who have produced a story that falls within the categories covered by the award and that is available on a platform whose primary audience is Nigeria.

The overall quality improved so much to a level that PwC decided to award prizes to 10 additional entries.

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Moses Inwang has won the ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best International’ awards at the 2020 The People’s Film Festival (TPFF) for his movie, ‘Cold Feet’.

Other winners include: ‘The Meeting That Shaped Amerikkka’ (Kristopher Adams, Joshua Austin) for Best Feature Film; ‘The Reading’ (Garrick Wade) for Best Short Film; ‘Ruth Maingi – Poker (Dancurf Brown of Kenya) for Best Actress.

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‘The New Normal’ has emerged winner of the Best International Narrative Features category at the 24th American Black Film Festival (ABFF) awards.

The 24th American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Awards ceremony, which was held online, took place from August 21-30, 2020.

The international narrative features category is a competitive section for feature-length films directed by or written and produced by persons of African descent. The cash prize is $2,500.

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Mariam Ayolola Kaka wins “Fight for Freedom” art competition organised by Never Such Innocence charity group with her art work entry: “Nostalgic Salutation to Fallen Heroes“.

Mariam Ayolola Kaka is a Senior Secondary School student of Olabisi Onabanjo University International School, Ogun State.

The organising charity group, Never Such Innocence, said no fewer than 4,000 entries were received from 44 countries, territories and dependencies from around the world.

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Irenosen Okojie has emerged the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing for her short fiction story “Grace Jones” – an impersonator of a Jamaican model.

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Achalugo Chioma Ezekobe has emerged winner of the 3rd Beeta Playwright Competition held on 22nd of July, 2020 on the Zoom App.

The grand finale of the Competition was held on the Zoom App due to the continued spread of the coronavirus and restrictions on social gatherings.

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Dapo Olorunyomi has been honored alongside four others with the 2020 International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Dapo Olorunyomi is the co-founder, CEO, and publisher of the Nigerian newspaper Premium Times, which today is one of the most trusted newspapers in Nigeria and a standard for African investigative journalism.

Dapo Olorunyomi has dedicated his life to holding the powerful to account and is a fierce advocate for press freedom.

Dapo Olorunyomi worked as an editor at other Nigerian media outlets, including PM News, which he helped co-found; Radio Nigeria; The African Guardian magazine; and NEXT newspapers. In 2005, he founded the Lagos-based Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, named after Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature and dedicated to exposing corruption and human rights abuses. He also co-founded the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, a partner organization to the newspaper, which has its own press freedom tracker.

Dapo Olorunyomi serves on the advisory boards of nonprofit organizations Africa Check and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism.

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