Project Grants
Awardees
Egbiameje Omole is a queer multidisciplinary performance artist, community organizer, editor, publisher and poet
Immaculata Abba is a researcher, writer, and photographer. She has a masters in Global and Imperial History from the University of Oxford and was a 2022 West African writerin-residence at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora, Ghana
Maryam Kazeem is a writer, editor, and producer, and the founder of iranti press an experimental publishing project based in Lagos. Her work has been published in platforms including Criterion, Literary Hub, Catapult, Joyland, Apogee, and Another Gaze. She completed an MFA in Creative Writing at CalArts where she taught courses for the School of Critical Studies as a Teaching Fellow
Omi Collective is an operative cluster located in Lagos. The cluster is focused on researching and documenting pre-independence and postindependence buildings, and by extension, the forms of arts that accompanied them
Nosazemen Agbontaen is a self-taught filmmaker who is interested in exploring narratives via absurdism, experimenting with boundaries, and creating alternative worldviews through various art forms. She is the founder of the independent film production company, Nosa Machi Productions
Tareowei Oki is a Nigerian Writer, Director and Producer whose practice centers themes of community, identity and intimacy and aims to present a softer, safer version of the world that might someday become reality