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Views: Visits 4 Chief Josephine Oboh-Macleod Chief Josephine Oboh-MacLeod lives and breathes art and culture. She’s a painter, sculpts, photographer, philanthropist, advocate for the environment and the less-privileged, and a human rights activist. From collecting artworks at the age of 15 years 40 years ago, she is now an authority whose artworks grace galleries across the globe and exhibitions attract avid collectors. “Sunset”, “Stepping into Universality”, “African Queen”, “The Warrior” and “Esan Perspective” are some of her many works. Chief Oboh-MacLeod, married with six children, is from a family of 12 seven females and five males including Nigerian politician Mabel Oboh; former British Commonwealth Light Heavyweight champion Peter Oboh, and Ajegunle musician John Oboh, aka Mighty Mouse. She studied at Government College, Ojo, Lagos; Newman Prep School, Boston, USA; graduated from Newbury College, Boston, USA, with a degree in
YABATECH researchers win Ford Foundation’s $100,000 grant The first grant they won in 2019 was used to develop an institutional policy on sexual harassment and gender-based policy, as well as set up a museum for the college.
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Yaba College of Technologyin Lagos State has described as laudable, winning of 100,000 USD Ford Foundation grant by three of its researchers/staff members.
A Deputy Registrar of the college, Joe Ejiofor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that the fund would further support efforts to develop the institution.
Mr Ejiofor listed the three researchers who jointly wrote a proposal that won the grant to include Dr Adeleke Abiodun of the Department of Chemical Science and Dr Funmilayo Doherty of the Department of Biological Science.
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Women in Nigerian visual arts sector have suffered under-representation. In fact, the ratio of male to female artists in Nigeria is imbalanced in favour of men.
In art schools, men are a majority of faculty members. There is equally imbalance in both enrolment of visual art students at various academic levels and graduate turnouts.
The dearth of female artists who’ve achieved the big time, in sales, reputation, academic attention or general acclaim is also obvious.
The disparity between male and female artists in Nigeria is further emphasised by the low participation rates of female artists relative to male artists in organised professional exhibitions.