The cultural community of Lagos is preparing to pay homage to the life and legacy of Tam Fiofori, a pioneering figure in Nigerian photography and filmmaking. A memorial tribute night is scheduled for Friday, August 16, 2024, at the historic…
My Guru Tam Fiofori departs — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Sad news hit me hard on Tuesday, June 25, in this year of Our Lord – my inimitable guru Tam Fiofori passed away. Tam was in his lifetime celebrated as a filmmaker, photographer, journalist, publisher and documentarian. Not many people…
Tribute to Tam Fiofori: A pioneering visionary storyteller
The IREPRESENT Documentary Film Festival mourns the loss of Tam Fiofori, a towering figure in Nigerian photography, filmmaking, and literature, who passed away on June 25, 2024. Femi Odugbemi, on behalf of the Directorate and Board of the IREPRESENT International…
ARTHouse Forum for Tam Fiofori @ 80
An ARTHouse Forum with the theme: “The 4-Some dimension to an art Icon… Journalist. Photographer. Filmmaker. Art Manager”, is to take place Friday 17 June 2022 at Freedom Park, Lagos to Herald the multi-disciplinary culture aficionado, Tam Fiofori, into the…
Nigerian Caesar conquers London -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Good books are written in Nigeria but you hardly ever see them in the bookshops. It is thanks to Tam Fiofori, the ace filmmaker and photo-journalist that I got this book, the memoirs of Caesar Kagho entitled Aah, It’s The…
Make photography major discipline in new mass communication programmes, stakeholders urge NUC
Stakeholders in Nigerian photography have called on the National Universities Commission (NUC) to make photography an independent discipline as it plans to upgrade mass communication programmes in Nigerian universities to promote scholarship and specialisation. They made the call in a…
The true story behind Fela’s hit song- ‘I no be gentleman’ – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Let me make this confession from the very beginning: I am a gentleman. Please this should be read to mean that I am not in the same slapping class as that Slapping Senator of the Sex Toy Shop!I am different.…
Another white Christmas – Tam Fiofori
My late ‘big friend and guru’ Sun Ra, in his rehearsal rap sessions to his ‘Space’ musicians, would occasionally remind them that the English language and its dictionaries were not invented with Black people in mind; or meant to favour…
Cracks in June – Tam Fiofori
Generally, as now; when things are tough and hard and the social climate tense; cartoonists pierce through the overhanging doom and gloom and offer the instant sunshine of laughter to ease the burden and defuse tension. Nigerian newspaper cartoonists have…
Lagos is a classic example of an African city -Tam Fiofori
Tam Fiofori, photographer and filmmaker, says that Lagos is a classic example of an African city. But that is not the only reason he loves the city by the lagoon. The other reasons will amaze you. Find them in the…