Amaka Igwe MFR,a woman that touched NIGERIAN creative Art
like no other person ,she lived and died a creator of arts and she
majored in HOME MOVIES and TELEVSION SOAP.A celebrated first class Nigerian filmmaker,a great writer, astute television producer, and entrepreneur, who died on Monday, April 28, 2014. She was reportedly working on location in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, when she took ill.
Amaka Igwe is One of the leading figures in the Nigerian film industry at the decisive moment in the 90s when the new cinematic form broke out, Amaka already had a track record in television as the writer and producer of the award-winning TV household serial called Checkmate.
She is Bold, big, clear-minded, cannily analytical and with a gift for the well-thought-out declarative, Igwe’s presence was a commanding one. Her work on movies, best represented in Violated and Rattlesnake.
There was joy and not mourning as the Icon received a befitting farewell from friends and well wishers and even the weather was so friendly that AMAKA must have smiled wherever she is
In what has turned out to be a sad months for burials and deaths, the late veteran Nollywood icon — Amaka Igwe who died at the age of 51, on the 28th of April, from complications resulting from an asthmatic attack was laid to rest in her home town of Arondizuogu, in Imo on June 13th.
Tons of Nollywood practitioners flocked into her home town to pay their last respect.
Present at the funeral were Yibo Koko, Julius
Agwu, Bob Manuel Udokwu, The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), African
Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, and Paul Obazele
amongt others.
Late Amaka Igwe is survived by her husband of 21 years, Charles Igwe, three children, an aged mother and siblings.
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