Fiche Film
Cinéma/TV
2009
Innovating for Africa: Uncommon Service
Pays concerné : Nigeria
Genre : portrait
Type : documentaire

Français

The film fait le portrait du Docteur Oluyombo Awojobi, un chercheur nigérian innovateur et médecin qui a transformé en vingt ans un communauté rurale sans infrastructure moderne en un modèle de centre de santé.
La clinique Awojobi est située à Eruwa (région d’Ibarapa, dans l’Etat de Oyo, Nigeria).

Réalisateur / Scénariste : Deji Adesanya



Photos copyright Olukayode Kareem / CFC


Tags: Film, citizenship, Nigeria, development, innovation, Africa, service, Awojobi, Portrait

Film Premiere: at Silverbird Cinemas in Victoria Island, Lagos – 30th September, 2009.

English

A documentary film on grassroots leadership that practically shows how to move Nigeria forward, from crisis and under-achievement to success and development.

« Innovating for Africa: Uncommon Service » celebrates Dr Oluyombo Awojobi, a Nigerian innovator and physician, who for the past twenty years has transformed a rural community with no modern infrastructure into an exemplary health care center.
With the support of the people of Eruwa, a subsistence farming community in Oyo State, Awojobi built a fully functioning hospital and invented environmentally friendly medical equipment with locally available materials – providing safe and affordable healthcare to thousands of people.


Tags: Film, citizenship citizenship, Nigeria, development, innovation, Africa, service, Awojobi, Portrait

Production : Communicating for Change (CFC Nigeria), Lagos.
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Film Premiere: at Silverbird Cinemas in Victoria Island, Lagos – 30th September, 2009.
* On September 30th, 2009, to mark Nigeria’s 49th independence celebration, the family of Chief Chris Ogunbanjo and Communicating for Change (CFC) launched « Innovating for Africa: Uncommon Service ».
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