24/01/2021
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EMAGES – THE DESIGNERS Issue: Editor’s Letter
We are just days from the official release of the EMAGES Magazine. It is our third issue but our second renaming, rebranding, and redesigned issue since we decided to fine-tuned content and features, graphic designs application on print. Since its inception in 2002, we knew we wanted to continue to innovate ourselves, and naturally, the magazine was the next step. With the mindset of still maintaining the print quality of EMAGES, gives color, expressing the tempo of standard and professional journalism on print. We wanted to reinvent ourselves while at the same time maintaining the essence of what made us special. As we embarked on this journey of building a multifaceted multimedia organization, we knew we were going to encounter the hardships that current and past multimedia firms have dealt with but we did not let that deter us from continuing the work. We understand there is a void to fill and we are here to fill it. We are here to be the young publication that started in the university to becoming the giant multimedia organization in the world.
One of the sustaining fictions of being a magazine editor is that you somehow determine the publication you produce. Strictly speaking, of course, this is true: It is editors who generate the ideas for the stories, who assign and edit the text and the photos, who style the shoots and design the layouts and fact-check and copy-edit, it would not exist without us. Yet at some undefinable point in the process, the relationship between the creator and the created shifts, and when you look through the finished product, you are invariably surprised. It is only when you see it as a whole that you are at last able to recognize the patterns, the obsessions; the questions, that you wove into its weft, sometimes only semi-consciously. Anyone who makes things for a living understands this sensation: the realization that the object you thought you were making, be it a book or a shirt or a film, is sometimes not, what is made. Therefore, what were we thinking of and obsessing about, the staff of EMAGES and the entire Editorial Department, when we were compiling this issue? For one, about how fashion designers not only mirrors themselves but also are often deliberately oppositional to, the cultural moment in which it has conceived? Still, as the No1 Africa magazines in the world and will continue to pull more trends in years to come and it makes us unique today. Therefore, you will find in all the newness of this issue, Emages is still the only African platform general-interest monthly magazine to cover all of African identity and heritage, the Emages that publishes more features stories on African.
The DESIGNER ISSUE tells a story of talented Fashion Designers and Creative Directors on how they invented themselves follow their dreams and work hard toward their goals. With Evans Akere – Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Vanskere Fashion House on the front cover, brings with him fresh takes on his personality, life, style, and the Nigeria fashion industry, plus Adedamola Iyiola Adebowale on his world of a model and being a fashion entrepreneur on Style – The Designers Collection. It will interest readers to know the Origins of Slavery in Africa, going back in memory lane, what it takes to become a CEO with Ogunleye Oludayo, Chief Executive Officers – Kingscrew Media. The issues of leadership have nothing to do with management, to establish this fact, Adewunmi Abayomi – Founder/CEO, Global Leadership Institute gives us an in-depth, understanding of leadership and management. We also drive into our Africa as we examine the city’s past and booming present, the history and facts of the Eyo Festival on Heritage & Culture. Our news & views are always complicated as it relates to issues around politics in Nigeria, however, in this inclusive and exclusive with Senator Ogunlewe Adeseye talks to us on the Identity of Nigeria.
On our track Stars – considering the fact Africans are under-represented when it comes Professionalism from startups to decision making, but these executives are making noise and breaking boundaries in an exclusive session with Femi Olaojo, Head, Network, IT Procurement – 9mobile Nigeria, Joshua Chibueze Co-Founder Piggyvest, Adanna Ifeoma Enwezor, Executive Director – Photizo Life Foundation and Founder, African Hair Summit &Amp; Abuja Hair and Beauty Expo. Chineze Amanfo, Lead Public Relations – 9mobile Nigeria, the Brand Lord – Adeleke Farayola on brand revolution. Emages feature on JCI World as it reflects on JCI Personality with Ligali Oluwatosin, JCI Nigeria – 2019 TOYP Chairperson. The media and entertainment industry consists of film, print, radio, and television. These segments include movies, TV shows, radio shows, news, music, newspapers, magazines, and books, and so on our entertainment monthly feature, we focus on the comedy industry with a mind-blowing interview with one of Nigerian celebrity comedian Usiaphe Kelvin (Whale Mouth) on his journey to be free and why he decided to become a comedian why in the seminary School to become a reverend father, Bukky Raji Ambode being an Actor, filmmaker, scriptwriter, dancer, and TV presenter on Nollywood Reporter, and finally a face-to-face interview with Oluwaseyi Abe, CEO/Managing Director – Magnartis Finance & Investment Ltd.
This year, the 1st annual Emages Executive of the Year Awards, which was a pioneer for May 2020 was postponed due to the COVID 19 pandemic, in which the management plan for the Emages Executive of the Year Awards is to be an annual prestigious event ceremony, where new horizon for recognizing the individual achievements of Nigeria’s Leading Executives. The evening celebrates the exceptional contributions made by CEOs and Senior Management Executives, highlighting their achievements over the past 12 months in their given organizations. Following this, a new dated will be communicated in due course.
Elawure Oluwashola
Publishers/Editor -In-Chief
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