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10 Mar The Venus Bushfires: explains why she likes to tick the “other” box

Posted at 17:02h in Art, Design, Music, Photography, The Venus Bushfires by Ijeoma Okoli 0 Comments
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  Nigerian-born Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise known as The Venus Bushfires, is a singer-songwriter who explains why she likes to tick the "other" box during an interview with Design Indaba. She’s a diaspora African: born in Nigeria and raised in London, she has been influenced by different styles, cultures...

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09 Mar Nigerian Helen Parker-Jayne Isisbor Spawned the First Pidgin Opera.

Posted at 14:09h in Events, Music, The Venus Bushfires by Ijeoma Okoli 0 Comments
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nigerian Helen Parker-Jayne Isisbor’s quest to champion her often-derided west African vernacular has spawned the first pidgin opera. This is opera, but not as you know it: it is the world’s first opera in pidgin, the language spoken by some 50 million people in West Africa’s...

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