Nollywood veteran Producer,Amaka Igwe dies

AMAKA IGWE

Prolific Writer, Director and Producer has passed on in Enugu at the age of 51. She was in the company of her husband of 21 years, Charles Igwe in Enugu to shoot a new Igbo series.

It is believed she suffered an Asthma  attack and was rushed to the Hospital but she gave up on the way there.

She lived behind a husband, three children, siblings and aged mother.

Brief BIO

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.

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

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