Veteran Nollywood Director Amaka Igwe, Passes On
If you ever watched popular TV series Checkmate and Fuji House of Commotion and the movies Violated & Rattle Snake, you know of Amaka Igwe. She was on of the pioneers of modern day Nollywood. A movie director who never compromised on quality. She passed away from a fatal Asthma attack which occurred yesterday (April 28, 2014) in Enugu where she had gone along with her husband Charles Igwe for pre-production for a new Igbo soap she was working on.
She passed away as she was being taken to the hospital.
She leaves behind her husband of 21 years, three children, an aged mother, siblings and a large extended family.
OBITUARY
Born Amaka Isaac-Ene, she was an accomplished writer, producer, director, entrepreneur and teacher. She is the founder of BoBTV Expo, founder and CEO of Top Radio 90.9FM, Amaka Igwe Studios, and the newly-launched Q Entertainment Networks.
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-criticised 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 Trans 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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