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Filmmaker · Nigeria

Eddie Ugbomah

Died in 2019

Eddie Ugbomah was born on 19 December 1940 in Ashaka, in Ndokwa country, and grew up in Lagos. He left for London, where he studied journalism, drama and then cinema, directed the plays of an Afro-Caribbean company and made a place for himself as a minor British actor. Back in Nigeria in 1975, he set up his own production company and made some fifteen films on the social and political issues of his time, most of them in sixteen-millimetre. President of the national film corporation in 1988, he died on 11 May 2019.

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