Arrangements are in top gear both in Nigeria and the United States of America for what is planned to be a grand celebration on March 4, 2023 in New York City of the 80th birthday of the Nigerian teacher, author, journalist, unstoppable intellectual and creative personality, the amazing Lolo Dorothy Chinaka Akujuo, who retired in New York as a Professor of English.
Friends, family and colleagues of this exceptional woman who has touched many lives in many different ways will, dressed in the best fashion money can buy, walk the red carpet at the sensational Leonard Palazzo in Great Neck, NY ready for the sumptuous Dinner Banquet to celebrate the eventful life of the evergreen lady.
The event will also bring the cream of Nollywood to New York for the International Premiere of the epic movie, “My Birthright”, a story of the big clash of traditional Igbo culture faced with emerging European values in the 1960s. This story told by the amazing Lolo Dorothy Akujuo has been shot in living colour by the new wiz boy of Nollywood movie making, Damola Akapo, the latest best graduating student of the Multi Choice Talent Factory (MFT), the high-powered joint project with Pan African University. Akapo, is supported in “My Birthright” by legends of the Nigerian movie industry, such as the great Patrick Doyle.
The movie will be shown, for the first time, to a live audience at the banquet in New York City on March 4.
While in New York, Damola Akapo will spend significant time at the New York Film Academy on a mission fully paid for by Multichoice which as Africa’s No 1 broadcast content producer, is providing the platform to grow a new crop of world class film makers, thoroughly schooled in the art.
Lolo Dorothy Akujuo, is coincidentally the elder sister of the inimitable creative workhorse, celebrated former President of PMAN and Chairman of Africa’s foremost copyright collective management organization, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON).
