Various
events preceding her funeral as announced by the family include; A tribute
evening and Lagos Service of Songs at Haven Gardens G.R.A Ikeja on the 9th of
June, and Enugu Service of Songs at Okpara Square, Enugu on the 12th of June,
2014. Continue...
A
tribute website, www.amakaigwe.ng, has been created for goodwill messages
and pictures. The site will also contain tweets and Facebook messages
celebrating Amaka Igwe. Past pictures, videos and speeches of Amaka Igwe will
also be uploaded onto the site continuously.
Amaka
Igwe, who is survived by her husband of 21 years Charles Igwe, three children,
an aged mother and siblings, died from complications from asthma at the age of
51.
She
contributed immensely to the development of indigenous television drama and
Nollywood over the past 25 years, for which His Excellency, Mr. President
graciously awarded her an MFR in 2011, one of the proudest moments of her life.
She is
the founder of BoBTV Film and Television Programmes Expo, founder and CEO of
Top Radio 90.9FM, Amaka Igwe Studios, and the newly launched Q Entertainment
Network.
A
visionary and pioneer of modern Nigerian TV drama and film, she hit national
limelight as the writer and producer of award-winning TV soap 'Checkmate' and
its off shoot 'Fuji House of Commotion'.
Her
Nollywood projects include RattleSnake and Violated - two critically acclaimed
movies that set apart Amaka Igwe Studios in the much-criticized Nollywood
industry.
Amaka
Igwe studied Education/Religion at the University of Ife (Now Obafemi Awolowo
University). She had a Master's Degree from the University of Ibadan. She had
her early education at All Saints School (Now Ekulu Primary School), Girls High
School Awkunanaw, Enugu and Idia College, Benin.
She worked as a lecturer at the Anambra
State University of Technology and briefly in oil and Gas, before settling for
the motion picture industry.
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