Oroma elewa biography sample

Nigerian Performance Artist

Oroma Elewa is a Nigerian visual and performance artist, writer and creative director.^[1][2][3]

In her art, Elewa examines social constructs and their impact on identity, thought, expression and behavior.

Her work is fundamentally concerned with reflecting upon and interrogating personal experiences that hold social, cultural, political and racial import, contemporary womanhood and, in her own words, ‘facets of Black identity, including the transnational African mindset, the diasporic experience, and [her] possession of a “Black Body.”’^[1]

The artist first came to prominence as the founding Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Pop’Africana, a fashion and art magazine that amplified contemporary African fashion, style and aesthetics to international audiences.^[2]

Work

Pop’Africana 2009-14

Oroma Elewa launched Pop’Africana, a landmark publication amplifying the cultures and