‘Nigeria Is My Biggest Love And Heartache’ Ifeoma Fafunwa Discusses As She Features In Guardian Life Magazine’s September Issue

Ifeoma Fafunwa, founder and Chief Creative Director of iOpenEye limited, which has gone on to create workshops and produce her signature play Hear Word! (one of the best plays to be performed in the Nigerian theatre industry) as well as Love & Recession. As the Nationally popular show heads stateside, Fafunwa discusses her journey as a director and how her experiences have informed her work. Speaking about elements of her personal and daily experience that seep into her work she said: I am very passionate about Nigeria. For me, Nigeria is my biggest love and heartache, it is very painful for me if I think about it deeply because I grew up in the 1960s when I could play and ride my bike around Ikoyi – there were no fences. Things worked better than they work now and to think that in 45-50 years nothing has improved (it has actually gone the opposite way) is very painful for someone like me especially if you left and came back to meet it worse than you left.

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