Ifeoma Onyefulu
Children's author, photographer and writer
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Building the city walls
Image by Ifeoma Onyefulu
Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu
'... this photographic alphabet captures the rhythms of day-to-day village life in Africa....'
Writer, children's author and photographer
Ifeoma Onyefulu
One Big Family, a photography exhibition
by Ifeoma Onyefulu
An award-winning children’s author and a photographer. She has won several awards for her books in USA, amongst them was CABA, (Children African Book Award), which she won twice.
Ifeoma has had many exhibitions - The British Museum, Liverpool Museum, Bristol Museum, Truro Museum and at the Afrika Center, Oslo, Norway, to name but a few.
Some collectors: The Arts Council UK, and Northwestern University USA and with other private collectors.
Exhibiting at Archway Library, London N19 5PH
24th June to 24th July, 2016 t. 0207 527 7820
See more at The Islington Library Opening Times page here...
One Big Family
The title reflects the warm welcome I received while travelling to many African countries over the years. I stayed in people’s homes, ate with them. I enjoyed eating the delicious Hausa Koko (millet porridge), and drinking fresh camel’s milk, and Burukoku (the local brew).
I have always been very interested in photographing people, and traditional houses.
My aim has always been to capture the warmth, the colours and vibrant life I knew as a child in Nigeria, and to - in my own little way - help preserve some traditions which I believe are fast disappearing because of our modern way of life.
I have chosen for this exhibition my photographs from five African countries, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Ghana.