Joke Silva (MFR) is an award-winning actress producer director and acting coach, Joke Silva since 1981 has worked on the platform of theatre, film, television, and radio.  She trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts and has a Degree in English from the University of Lagos.  She is also an alumna of FATE Foundation, Lagos.

In recent times, Joke has enjoyed working on Hearword produced and directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa. The stage play has traversed three continents Europe, America and Africa and would have gone to the fourth Australia but for the pandemic.

Joke Silva has featured in many award-winning films and TV shows and to date  has won five Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) including Lifetime Achievement Award (June 2016).

Joke co-founded Lufodo Group with her husband Olu Jacobs specializing in Productions of Drama Content(since1986) and an Academy of Performing Arts (since 2007).  The company since January 2022, manages the newly refurbished state of the art  GLOVER MEMORIAL HALL Lagos, the oldest theatre and event space in Nigeria.

She is Chairman Board of Trustees of Centre of Contemporary Arts (CCA Lagos); and Vice -Chair AART of Life Foundation on grief and trauma counselling.

Folasade Doherty is a Legal Practitioner, with vast experience in the private and public sector spanning a period of 41 years. An active volunteer, a seasoned legal researcher, and an excellent communicator.

A member of both the Nigerian Bar Association and the International Bar Association. An Accredited Mediator and Member of the Panel of Neutrals of the Lagos Multi-door Courthouse.

She has worked as an In-house Counsel for a multinational company based in 141 countries worldwide and is presently in private legal practice as the Founding Partner of The Metropole Practice, where she has advised numerous multinationals, domestic corporates, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on a wide array of legal issues in Nigeria.

She is a Family Court Assessor attached to the Family Courts under the Lagos State Judiciary and is a strong proponent and implementer of the Child’s Rights Law. She serves on several Boards including the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA LAGOS), COBIS-certified Banana Island School, Lagos, and the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON). She is currently the Chairperson of the Marketing and Fundraising Committee of MUSON. A lover of the arts and a burgeoning collector of contemporary African Art.

 She holds two LL.M qualifications; University of Lagos where her specialism was Comparative Company Law (1983) and the second as a British Chevening Scholar from Queen Mary, University of London where her specialism was International Business Law (2001).

EL ANATSUI is a Ghanaian sculptor who has spent much of his achievement-packed career living and working in Nigeria. El Anatsui currently runs a very robust studio practice, situated in Nsukka, Enugu, Nigeria, and Tema, Ghana, where some of the most beautiful and touching works of art in the world today are created.

He is one of the most highly acclaimed artists in African History and foremost contemporary artists in the world.

El Anatsui uses resources typically discarded such as liquor bottle caps, cassava graters and newspaper printing plates to create sculpture that defies categorisation.

His use of these materials reflects his interest in reuse, transformation, and an intrinsic desire to connect to his continent while transcending the limitations of place. His work can interrogate the history of colonialism and draw connections between consumption, waste, and the environment, but at the core is his unique formal language that distinguishes his practice.

Anatsui is well-known for large scale sculptures composed of thousands of folded and crumpled pieces of aluminium bottle caps sourced from local alcohol recycling stations and bound together with copper wire. These intricate works, which can grow to be massive in scale, are luminous and weighty, meticulously fabricated yet malleable. He leaves the installations open and encourages the works to take new forms every time they are installed.

El Anatsui was born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana, a citizen of the Ewe Nation and son of a master weaver of Kente cloth. He acquired art training at the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, one of the highest-ranking universities in Ghana. In 1975, when he had graduated from the university, El began teaching at the Fine Arts Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He taught at UNN for over four decades as a Professor of Sculpture.

As a member of the faculty at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, El Anatsui started to incorporate Uli and Nsibidi of southeastern Nigeria into his work alongside his indigenous Adinkra symbols and other Ghanaian motifs and ideographic and logographic symbolism. He soon after became affiliated with Nsukka Group, a group with a shared vision to revive the practice of Uli and incorporate its designs into contemporary art.

El Anatsui’s works can be found amongst some of the most prestigious art collections in the world including permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; The British Museum; the Vatican Museum and many more. In 2023 he was awarded the highly reputable Hyundai Commission by Tate Modern.