Our Team
Our Team

Oyindamola (Fakeye) Faithful
Artistic Director
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Oyindamola (Fakeye) Faithful is the current Executive & Artistic Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos), where she previously co-founded the Video Art Network Lagos (2009).
She has worked on various exhibitions and projects, including “Identity: An Imagined State” (2009) the first video art exhibition in Nigeria. Co-curated the Lagos Biennial II (2019), titled “How to Build a Lagoon With Just a Bottle of Wine,” alongside Tosin Oshinowo and Antawan Byrd.
Additionally, she initiated The Arts and Tech Podcast in partnership with the Goethe Institut Nigeria and was the creative producer for “Moving Between,” a 360-degree VR experience of the Kofar-Mata dye pit, a cultural and historical site in Kano, Nigeria.
Oyindamola’s practice often centers collaboration, access, inclusion, embodied experiences and new media technology.

Kemi Aderinto
Office Manager
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Peter Okotor
Exhibition and Technical Manager
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Peter Okotor is concerned with the sense of hearing. He employs archival sound as a mnemonic to highlight past events and how they contribute to historical recall travelling back in time.
Okotor engages field recordings distorted and rendered to investigate social and global happenings attempting to make a statement about collective memories and histories contemplating how aural experiences captures and borders our understanding of the world and provides a context for debates.

Ama Ofeibea Tetteh
Project Manager Àsìkò Art School
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Ama Ofeibea Tetteh is founder and lead consultant at Chapter54. With a background in Graphics & Communications, Research and Programme Management and academic qualifications from Central St. Martins, Goldsmiths College and SOAS; her career portfolio is driven by a passion to harness the Arts and Creative sector to create opportunities and contribute to new narratives about the Continent.
Having worked within the Creative and Cultural Industries for over 18 years, her professional offering centres on deep understanding of cultural nuance and appreciation for the artistic as well as the operational.
Ama previously worked as Head of Graphics and Archive at international Architectural Firm Adjaye Associates (UK), Researcher at Tom Fleming creative Consultancy (UK) and as West Africa Arts Programme Manager for British Council (GH). Currently consulting at CCA Lagos (NG) as Programme Manager for Àsìkò Art School, her practice continues to be fuelled by curiosity, creativity and connection.

Mary Osaretin Omoregie
Assistant Curator / Assistant Project Manager Àsìkò Art School
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Mary Osaretin Omoregie is a curator and researcher who is interested in African feminism, community engagement, and archival representation. Mary is also interested in exploring new modes of critical inquiry, including the intersections of artistic practice, cultural identity, and community formation that exist beyond traditional paradigms and norms.
She has worked on projects such as ‘On Shyness Workshop Series’, ‘Reinventing GRASSI SKD’, ‘Moving Between: A Virtual Reality Documentary’, ‘Artists Crossroad Festival’.
Some of her research projects include ‘Black Muses:Archives on Women Bodies in 19th-Century French Art’, ‘African Feminist Epistemology: In Search for Pragmatic Relevance’, and ‘The Restitution of the Benin Artifacts and the Representation of African Feminism’. She currently serves as the project assistant for Asiko Art School and the Memberships Coordinator for Res Artis.

Emmanuel Ndefo
Researcher and Curator, Performance Art
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Emmanuel Ndefo (b.1991, in Kano Nigeria) is a performance and dance artist/researcher who uses his body as a tool for his creative process and to imagine how performance can contribute to larger contemporary conversations.
He is interested in how bodies use space in liberatory and transformative ways. Though inspired by a wide range of forms and practices, the bulk of his work is rooted in dance and performance art.
He combines his formal training in dance research with knowledge gained from the practice of various traditional dances from Africa, and with urban dance styles like hip-hop, krump and house dance.
Ndefo was a recipient of the African no filter storytellers fund (2021) and the ACCR Odyssey artist grant by the French ministry of culture in (2022).
His notable works include “Traces of Ecstasy” and “the Passage”. Ndefo has undertaken residencies, presented his research and shown his live performance at other prominent institutions like; Center for Contemporary Art Lagos, Nigeria (2022). Centre nationale de la Danse Paris, France (2017), Transformatorio art festival Sicily, Italy (2018), Villa Karo Benin republic (2022), Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany (2023), Kunstwerk Koln, Germany (2023), Pact Zollverein Essen, Germany (2023), Turku new performance biennale (2023), Raid festival Salerno, Italy (2023) etc.
Website: www.emmanuelndefo.com Insta: @emmanuel_ndefo

Benneth Njoku
Digital Communications Manager
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Benneth Njoku – is a seasoned Brand Communications Specialist with over a decade of experience in content marketing, web design, SEO, and digital strategy. He has led impactful campaigns that have elevated brand visibility and audience engagement across sectors. Benneth has contributed to major national and international projects, including work with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s media team, the World Economic Forum Africa 2014, the Nigeria National Conference 2014, and the CBN Cashless CardExpo Conference, just to mention a few. Currently the Lead Consultant at Strategia Media Nigeria, he is passionate about using digital tools to craft powerful narratives and drive meaningful public engagement.

Alabi Oluwanifemi Deji
Social Media Manager
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Alabi Oluwanifemi Deji is a social media manager at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos.
He is also a medical doctor, who graduated from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos.
Due to his love for content creation and design, he ventured into the digital space in 2019 focusing on digital marketing, graphic design, and branding.
He is also an Asian culture enthusiast, with keen interest in their art, food, movies, music, language and culture.
As the social media manager, he has been involved in all projects that CCA, Lagos has undertaken since he joined the team. He also joined the Asiko Team in 2022 and was in charge of all the content that was released from it.

Taiwo Moses
Intern
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Taiwo Moses, a multidisciplinary artist based in Lagos whose practice bridges photography, sound art, experimental media, and design. My work exists at the intersection of creativity and care, seeking to bring healing, comfort, and hope into spaces where they are most needed. I see art as a beacon, a guiding light that helps people navigate moments of uncertainty, reconnect with their inner selves, and find clarity in the midst of life’s noise.
Taiwo is an Ambassador of the Yaba Art Museum(YAM), has served as a museum assistant, gallery manager, and has participated in several collaborative art projects like The Herds, Artist Crossroad Festival, Gelede Comes, Living Blue, Eko Culture etc demonstrating his commitment to community focused creative practice and institutional engagement.

Amirah Kelechi Egbefo
Intern
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A visual artist who is interested in research about female health and creating works focusing on women health physically and mentally. She has participated in few exhibitions in Benin, Edo State and collaboration house of Urnebes, in Serbia.
She likes to speak on female health to contribute to the articles out in the world but talking from a point of experience and ignorance of many, she also create works that talks about her experiences as such documentation would heal a lot of people who have either gone through or are going through as a way to ease the mental state of the world.
She is an enthusiast of basic but not so basic research on human relationships. She enjoys people watching in her free time.