Nigeria

Andy Amadi Okoroafor was born in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria. He is a TED-Fellow and an acclaimed Art Director in advertising, fashion and music videos, based in Paris. His clients have included Xuly-Bët, Jean Paul Gaultier, Kookaï, Virgin, Galeries La Fayette, Hôtel Lutétia, Figaro, Nissan, Méridiam Infrastrusture, to name a few. He has directed and filmed promos and advertisements in Africa for different clients from the Oceanic Bank to music-videos for Nneka and the South African TV-series Yizo Yizo. Andy is also the founder of Clam Magazine, a quarterly magazine focusing on African creativity – distributed in France, Africa, US, UK, Japan, South Africa and Germany. His work was included in the 2017 exhibition, “Never Surrender,” at M.Bassy in Hamburg, Germany. The show included photography and video installations in part 2 of the event series, “More Aphrike,” which brought himself and fellow photographer and filmmaker, Andrew Dosunmu and included Okoroafor’s film Relentless, and all editions of Clam Magazine, since its beginning 20 years ago.

Filmography

Relentless (2011)