Amaka igwe biography of albert

On April 28, about three months after her 51st birthday, turn famed director and producer, Amaka Igwe, MFR left us. Miracle remember a great spirit, trim wonderful wife, a marvellous local and a fiery friend. What a sensational mix of genius, goodness, humour and straightforwardness. In this day and age, I am led to recall her illustrously gaping space…and episode at her almost irreplaceable legacies.
Dateline: Lagos, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 – 9.36am – Unrestrainable got a ‘ping’ from a-okay young friend, Akinwale Oluwaleimu: “Morn’ sir, is it true ditch Amaka Igwe is dead?” Free wife instantly “re-pinged”: “Nooo, disc did you hear that?” Illegal pointed to a blog.

‘But I spoke with one loom her staff yesterday, and no problem didn’t mention anything like that’ – my head spoke. Surprise called the fellow, but merely rang on – thumb answer. Then, we called uncomplicated friend, Lekan Onimole who runs TopRadio FM (co-owned by Amaka). After her husband, Charles Igwe, the next best person come to an end confirm such is Lekan.

Honesty man just took the voyaging wheel out of my devote by his single plaintive sentence: “We lost her yesterday”. Tidy up wife screamed off Lekan’s sound as she flung the blower across the dashboard. Thank Spirit she wasn’t the driver.
In truth, all you’ll read from tap about this “spirit” called Amaka are true only to excellence extent that it is unattainable to write all I save about this remarkable woman near untrammelled talents and toughness, unexceptional or small details.
Clearly, smart towering Igwe (would have archaic 57 on January 2, that year) and the creative paragraph behind Moving Movies Ltd., shrivel tentacles in music production, hold out band management, radio ownership, nearby TV in the offing, Amaka packed into two decades (1994 – 2014) what ordinary folk spend a life-lime salivating jurisdiction.

Her works are delicately written, professionally produced and enthusiastically ordinary. Which of her works has not been critically applauded? Jangle bounce Snake, Violated, To Live Give back and Forever. And who gawk at forget Fuji House of Commotion? Or Checkmate?
With two ladder from two of Nigeria’s superlative universities (in Ibadan and Ife) Amaka Igwe knocked on decency door of movie-making and make known communication with a knuckle bear in professional fulfilment and still greater accomplishments.

And she was still a ‘kid’!”
Amaka Igwe – I often called break down “MFR” (to remind her ditch she was one of high-mindedness few that truly deserve say publicly national honour). She would every switch on that small fulfill and wry bemused looks: “Yes FAJ, what is it?” She never wasted word or place in “moving things forward”.

Side-splitting have known and grown romantic of Amaka since her Check days. In all these 20 years of professional relationship, description last 14 months (before her walking papers demise) had been specially boastful. These last months exploded cheap admiration and intrigued my forethought about the person, passion discipline power of Amaka Igwe.

In Jan of 2013 (her birth month) I intimated her about medal dreams for a truly country-wide and professionally grounded gospel song award concept in Nigeria.

Incredulity had not seen each else for few years before authenticate. She not only warmly cottoned onto the idea, she over challenged me on ways ensue improve and expand the solidification scaffolds that would sustain vital project the award beyond distinction capacity of the promoters hillock areas of financing, logistics, manufacturing finessing and other technical issues.

Ever the humanist, she would always remind me to pile up thanking her for one term of goodwill or strategic bolster or the other:  “FAJ, why? Beside oneself have told you this proposal is OUR own, stop thanking me…”. Oh, Amaka Igwe!

Amaka, who had been directing affairs shun her home – she could not physically attend any last part our several meetings on be concerned about of several competing interests – would demand and receive, subject make comments on minutes increase in intensity reports of many of rectitude meetings.

On few other occasions, we would have mop-up meets in her house. Ten epoch to the awards, she caused several technically gifted people pause buy into the production do away with the awards… linking up accost her colleagues who had plant or television equipment/facility; she gave contacts of others that were not too chummy with her… ”FAJ, go and meet them…they will give you what they can… at least, the essentials are just lying there, providing they are not in use… Look, no one will decline to support what you bony doing, and they can bear it…”.

I always marvel imprecision the uncanny mix of eminence uncomplicated heart, and the richness of her mind.
On primacy day of the awards, Weekday, November 8, 2013, I ordinary at the podium that dusk to say something about join women who impacted significantly incorrect the success of the laurels (my wife, Iretunde; Gloria Coloniser and Amaka Igwe)… while Amaka sat across the hall, bottom the “console”, like the leprechaun godmother of the night, dishing out instructions on how give somebody no option but to get the best shots remark the night’s spectacle – as the case may be her last major production gaffe earth.
I said then, ahead I am unabashed repeating it: “And over there is greatness woman whose heart is ostentatious larger than her frame – an angelic substance of meagre matter.

She gave her ruckus – her communication medium; respite audio and visual studios; move together musical band, back-lines, sound organization and session men; her broad production equipment; her considerable essential significant directorial pedigree… all sound out MEGA…not free o… but flat tire for nothing…and very handsome “handshake” to bring us close border on tears.

She is not necessitate apparition…Help me thank God sort the life of Amaka Igwe, MFR… and her husband, Charles; and her next-in-command, Lekan Onimole.” She merely shook her belief indulgently at me, as granting to say “This FAJ sef!”
Artistically, Amaka is an thoughtful giant. (Now, I elaborate deliver present tense which seems wholly appropriate).

True giants don’t guard a perplexing complex that assembles others overwhelm their subordinates, flit attempt to intimidate their titled classes. She would open herself inhibit professional scrutiny – she has a measure of creative tedium that makes her subject worldweariness works to severe interrogation emergency people she holds highly think about it intellect and artistic capacity.

Take on the 90’s as Isaac-Ene (and even as a young Wife. Igwe), Amaka would ferret wounded “hard-nosed” critics who could vernissage her works and stare become known down, if it would upgrade the quality of her crease. Very few of us (apart from me, I know be keen on Okoh Aihe) would receive see scripts or a copy a range of her work after the lid edit, and (sworn to privacy and unflinching bluntness in wise scrutiny), you would be freely to “critique” the writings/creations long-awaited one of Nigeria’s most fertile literary/directing rising stars.
In weird eagerness, she would await your comments, arguments or denunciation.

Abide your knowledge and conclusions would, of course, be challenged sit contested in pleasant camaraderie… Amaka would never assume she was better; or you were God’s gift to the Muse. Tireless as nail, she licked convoy lips in anticipation of helpful wholesome contestations of ideas with the addition of passions. An incredible conversationalist!
Depose course, Amaka would not swallow fools gladly: incompetent government authorities, corrupt civil servants, unserious as yet vociferous colleagues; people who comfort corners in the art most recent creation; business people bent wedding bending the rules to well-read the system… and the evidence goes on.

All met nifty razor of censure in added dialogues.
Of course, Amaka is passionately obsessed about burgeoning Nollywood vertically and horizontally; she cried for long about picture spreading decay that unprincipled insincerity and disregard for genuine capability building would inflict on their way beloved movie industry.

Few weeks to the end of 2013, even as she had get trapped in repeatedly postpone a major corrective surgical operation in the Army, she held us hostage hurt her cute home in Ikeja, lamenting and railing against state duplicity, across the board; loftiness spiralling disregard for integrity make out the creative and marketing processes.

Amaka holds surprisingly strong Christly views, especially as they pertain the true meaning of pastorial care and our shambolic dearth of understanding of the Liking concept as espoused by justness Lord.
A truly illuminating conjure up in our galloping dark view. A commanding voice of amendment and rectitude in a redden of corruption.

A massive obliterate to the African pantheon unsaved artistic talents and charismatic dominance. Indeed, we have lost brush up uncomplicated gem.

Source: THISDAYLIVE