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| Albert Ohams, master cartoonist |
The exhibition tagged
ALBERT OHAMS: 35 YEARS STROKES OF MASTER CARTOONIST featured over 50 of his cartoon works and held
from the 29thAugust and ended 31stAugust.
Carton lovers from all
over Nigeria including Minister of labour and productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, Prince Eze Madumere, former
deputy Governor of Imo State, Ambassador Ayo Olukanni, Director General of
NACCIMA who are high profile admirers of the celebrated cartoonist were on hand.
In a chat with ECD
recently, the Mgbidi, Imo state born highly celebrated cartoonist said the
works on exhibition vary from different political, social and economic issues
captured in diverse styles and humorous imaginations.
For Ohams, it has been
a long journey from cradle to present day in his chosen profession.
He joined the weekly
Eagle Newspaper owned by Dr. K.O Mbadiwe, in Aba, thirty five years ago after
leaving Bishop Shanahan College, Orlu, Imo State without any inkling that the profession
will be a life time career enough to give him a place in both local and
international cartoon industry.
Currently, he is Cartoon
Editor of The Sun Newspaper where he has since carved a big niche for himself with
several awards including editorial cartoonist of the year, the Nigerian Media
Merit Award (NMMA), Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME),Wole Soyinka
Investigative Award (WSIJ) BBC Budget Monitoring Best Cartoonist Award, Red
Ribbon Award and others.
Ohams graduated with HND
fine art from Yaba College of Technology and has worked with several media
houses including Ikebe Super, Prime People and Vintage People, Quality
Magazines and Champion Newspaper.
The unique selling
point in all his works is the use of humour to douse the high political
intensity and depth in international and local issues.
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