Ex-First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama paid a visit to Njideka Akunyili Crosby at her studio. US-based Njideka, one of the daughters of the late NAFDAC boss Dora Akunyili, made headlines when her 2017 botanical painting, titled “Bush Babies,” sold for $3.4 million USD. Her sister, Chidiogo, shared the photo with the caption: So this just happened! Casual...
Two Nigerian women, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, have been named in the first-ever ‘TIME 100 Next’ list for 2019. TIME 100 Next, an offshoot of the TIME 100 franchise, brings to the spotlight 100 rising stars around the world who are shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, science, health, and more. The initiative, according to...
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, one of the daughters of the late Dora Akunyili, has sold one of her numerous artworks for N1.2 billion ($3.4 million). The young artist who, in 2016, still sold her paintings for $3,000 (N1,089,000) recently sold her “Bush Babies” painting for a whopping sum of $3.4 million. The equivalent of which is 1.2 billion naira. Is...
We can say that Njideka Akunyili Crosby, daughter of the late NAFDAC boss Dora Akunyili, is gradually following her mother’s footsteps with her recent feat of being awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Enugu-born Njideka, who now lives in California, was described by the foundation as “a figurative painter whose large-scale works express the hybridity characteristic of transnational experience through...