Team
Ndukwe Onuoha
Chief Griot
Ndukwe is an award-winning Copywriter, Creative Director, Spoken Word Poet, and Filmmaker. Over the course of his career, he has created memorable ads for brands in the UK, Nigeria, and West Africa, across various sectors. His works focus on crafting messages that resonate with the cultural and lived experiences of his Target Audience, whomever they may be. In 2020 he was endorsed by Arts Council England for his work in poetry and moved to the UK with his family the following year.
Ndukwe’s poetry is inspired by questions about his Igbo identity as well as his own journey to self. His style fuses a unique conversational delivery with traditional and modern instrumentation to deliver poetry that is accessible, relatable and at once punchy.
His short film, Ada Ani (The Awakening), was inspired by Igbo mythology, and the desire to tell Igbo stories with authenticity, and from an Igbo perspective. It has been well-received by festivals.
Lydia Idakula
Producer
Lydia is an award-winning Producer, Writer, and Arts Manager who has produced several theatre productions, film, TV shows, festivals and arts events.
Notably, she was the Artistic Director of Lagos Theatre Festival, the largest multi arts festival in West Africa.
She is currently working on her first musical.
Nonye Ndukwe-Onuoha
Director
Nonye is a consummate professional with over 18years work experience spanning across different sectors and industries, including multinational alcohol giant Diageo GB, where she managed the marketing budget and supplier/agency relationships for the company’s top brands like Guinness, Smirnoff, Gordons, Baileys and Captain Morgan.
Nonye began her career as radio producer with Federal Radio Corporation Nigeria before moving in to the non-profit sector where she was the programme manager for the US Government/Microsoft Sponsored Youth Employability Programme with Nigerian non profit organisation – LEAP Africa.
In this role she was solely responsible for recruitment of participants, partnership management and overall programme structure management. She managed the programme budget and presented periodic progress and status reports to the programme funders.
She also has extensive marketing communications experience, having worked over 7 years in advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi Nigeria where she was account manager for Guinness Nigeria.
Nonye is currently a director at NSIBIDI with focus on operations.