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Section Niger Delta, Nigeria

 

Three artists of the group 'Magnificant 10 Finger Artists' (MAFAS10) in Nigeria were represented with works in Amsterdam. Their National Coordinator, Nduwhite Ndubuisi Ahanonu, who is also Nigeria's cultural ambassador to Berlin, Germany, was also present during the exhibition together with Prof. Stella Williams from Ile Ife University. Both interacted with the groups from other countries and exhibition visitors.

 

Harrison Woyinpere Ikibah - 
Dance of the Gods - This oil painting by the late Harrison Woyinpere Ikibah was also chosen for the cover page of the minibrochure on the exhibition. -
Oil on canvasHarrison Woyinpere Ikibah - 
Fish marketing - 
Oil on canvasNduwhite Ndubuisi Ahanonu - 
The Sea in Us - 
Oil on canvas and mixed mediaNduwhite Ndubuisi Ahanonu - 
Nigeria - 
White ink and mixed mediaNduwhite Ndubuisi Ahanonu - 
Oil on canvas and mixed mediaAderinkonmi John Adeleye - 
Sunset on the lagoon - 
Oil on canvasAderinkonmi John Adeleye - 
Sunrise - 
Oil on canvas

The pupils of the Peace Clubs of three schools in the Niger Delta participated in a workshop end May 2009 organised by Nduwhite Ndubuisi Ahanonu and fixed their experiences with fisheries, oil-related violence and environmental conditions in drawings and paintings. The schools are Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt, Community Secondary School Abuluma and Community Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika, all in Rivers State. The modest means at disposal meant that a number of drawings were done only with pencils and colour pens and are thus more difficult to reproduce than the acryl colour works.

 

 

Neyneka Udochukwa, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Pencil drawing and acrylic colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Emmanuel Iyaye, Community Secondary School, Okrika - 
Militants destroying pipes and water causing oil spillage and death of fish - 
Pencil drawing and acrylic colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Anthony K. Kpakol, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Pencil drawing and acrylic colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Makanyuola Oluyem, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
There is a fuel leakage. It causes another thing and the fishes run away. - 
Pencil drawing with acrylic colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Woke Kingsley, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Temple Ifeamyi Olela, Comunity Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika - 
Pencil drawing with acryl colours and mixed media (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Christian Akinnuli, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Drawing depicting a boat collecting oil from a pipe, marine life, fishermen in a canoe and a militant with a machine gun - 
Pencil drawing and pen colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm).Chimenem Adele Ryan, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours and mixed media (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Johnson Tamuno-Kuyo, Community Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika - 
Drawing in three parts: a boat collecting oil from an oil point, a militant with a gun and a canoe with fishermen - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Prince Okafor, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Drawing depicting militants with guns among palm trees firing at each other across an oil point, oil in a boat, a fisherman lifting a big black net, fish in the sea and what seems to be a passenger ship or ferry. - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours and mixed media (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Ransome T. Atams, Community Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika - 
Sailfish - 
More biological and distribution information about sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) in Fishbase. - 
Acryl colours (45.5 cm - 31 cm)Bereiweriso Belema, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Painting depicting oil spillage and dynamite fishing - 
Water colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Alfred Nemi, Community Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika - 
Drawing above: fishermen complaining, old beggar crying, young boys complaining; lower part: fishermen with dynamite harrassing the river - 
Pencil drawing and mixted media (45.5 cm x 31 cm)Alfred Nemi, Community Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika - 
Tilapia - 
More biological and distribution information about tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) a brackish water species reported from Nigeria in FishBase [www.fishbase.org] - 
Pencil drawing with mixed media (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Udeme Vitalis, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Drawing depicting militants with oil drum, dynamite fishing, cast net fishermen and marine life. - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours (45,5 cm x 31 cm) Tamunoldnabiu E.D. Iruayenama, Community Secondary Schoool Okochiri, Okrika - 
Drawing depicting syphoning of oil from two oil points. - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours and acryl (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Abaridi Gira, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Drawing depicting marine life, castnet and line fishing and some oil spillage. - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours and acrylic colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Tobiahs Taribibia, Community Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika - 
Prawn and bony fish - 
The prawn might be Southern pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus notialis) - for more biological information see SealifeBase [www.sealifebase.org]. - 
Bony fish might be the Blue Runner (Caranx crysos) - for more biological information see Fishbase [www.fishbase.org]. - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm) 
Christian Akinnuli, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Drawing depicting a militant with a gun, a fisherman syphoning off oil from a pipeline, a palm grove and a traditional village - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Jatin Etris, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Drawing depicting militants, bystanders on the run, fishing and dynamiting near the place of an oil leakage - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours and mixed media (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Jesse Obeij, Community Secondary School Abuloma - 
News focus: what a wonderful fishing report - 
Pencil drawing with acrylic colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Victor Chindah Maruchi, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
Drawing depicting militants in speed boat, a person in a boat trying to get out of their way and marine life, including a squid and a dolphin
For more biological information on marine organisms, see SealifeBase [www.sealifebase.org]. - 
Pencil drawing and water colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Paul Enyinnaya, Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt - 
The government should provide a specific place for the oil spillage to avoid water pollution - drawing depicting an oil deposit with gas flaring, canoes with fishermen, marine life and a hut on stilts. - 
In 2005, the NGO Friends of the Earth International, among others, campaigned against gas flaring and its negative effects on the climate and people's health. Read more [http://www.climatelaw.org/cases/cases/case-documents/nigeria/report/index_html]. - 
Pencil drawing with pen colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm) Africanus Alafiebo, Community Secondary School Okochiri, Okrika - 
Water colours (45.5 cm x 31 cm)

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