The AJALA Project

29/09/2019

By the lagoon... on today’s episode of our weekly brainstorming session

24/09/2019

Would you love to represent your nation in the world’s biggest art convention in history? Under the auspices of H.E the President of Egypt.
REVIVING HUMANITY MEMORIAL

Interested applicants from the following countries should send their portfolios and artist statement to [email protected] with the email subject (Country-Artist Name / Reviving Humanity) @ Dubai Design District

23/09/2019

Call for Sculptors - Reviving Humanity Memorial

Interested applicants from the respective countries should send their portfolios and artist statement to [email protected] with the email subject (Country-Artist Name / Reviving Humanity)

18/09/2019

Such a honor to have the endorsement of Nike Art Centre for the platform we’re building in Nigeria.

15/09/2019

Artist, Ola Ezekiel took the lead in showing us around Lekki Art Market to explore the crafts stores, meet with the traders and understand their needs. Although it rained all afternoon, the hats we bought at the market got us covered. @ Lekki Market

24/07/2019

Connecting African Creatives and Winning $5000 grant from The Tony Elumelu Foundation for his work. Read the interview and listen to the podcast by The AJALA Project’s founder - Bayo Hassan Bello.

AJALA the traveller’s story is iconic, he got worldwide attention in the 1950’s for his travelling adventures, visiting 87 countries … Continue reading "Meet the Modern AJALA, Bayo Hassan Bello Connecting African Creatives With Investors."

31/05/2019

Photography in Nigeria has grown tremendously over the past decade. The rise of amazing talented photographers is encouraging and promising but is the business rising as well? Are they been remunerated at their true value? These issues are what we researched on in our survey of Nigeria’s creative economy. Here are a few of the interesting responses we gathered. Enjoy!

27/05/2019

Our recent research on Nigeria’s creative economy helped us gain some insight on the perspectives of Nigerian creatives in the Film, Photography, Radio and Photography sectors. Here are some of the responses we gathered. Enjoy! @ Dubai Design District

21/05/2019

Of the ten sectors we researched on in Nigeria, Museums and Galleries was the eight. The responses we gathered sparked our interest and we thought to share @ Dubai Design District

02/05/2019

Many people speculate that publishing, a vital pillar holding the human race for many centuries now, may slowly be fading away to give chance to modern technologies. We researched the possibilities of this in Nigeria’s creative economy and here are a few of the interesting responses we gathered. Enjoy! @ Dubai Design District

21/04/2019

Design is Certainly an interesting sector in Nigeria’s creative economy. It was the fourth of the ten sectors we researched on. These are a few of the interesting responses we gathered in our survey. @ Dubai Design District

13/04/2019

Crafts! The third of the ten sectors we researched on in Nigeria’s creative economy. These are a few of the interesting responses we gathered from the craft sector in our survey. @ Dubai Design District