“Poet, writer and Energy Law expert, DONNA is
arguably the most compelling voice in Nigeria’s intense performance
poetry circuit today. She has been described in the only ranking effort
for spoken word in Nigeria (EGC Platform) as the “queen of spoken word
poetry in Nigeria” for the year 2013 and ranked amongst the top 20 poets
in Nigeria in the years 2012 and 2014 (where she ranked 5th overall best poet in Nigeria).
She is a Partner in the Law Firm of Adepetun, Caxton-Martins, Agbor & Segun where she
has been recognised by IFLR 1000, Energy and Infrastructure (2014) as a
“Rising Star” and also recently ranked as a “Rising Star” in IFLR
1000’s 2015 Financial and Corporate ranking of leading lawyers. Donna
is also currently the youngest recipient of the Yitzhak Rabin
International Award for Excellence in Leadership. When she is not
providing expert advice to clients, DONNA invests her energies in
performed poetry and was formerly a co-coordinator of the well
established Nigerian platform for art expression, Freedom Hall. She is a
regular act on platforms like Taruwa, Freedom Hall and Word Up (where
she has been a judge of poetry slams severally and was a facilitator at
their event “The Business of Spoken Word in Nigeria, 2014” where she
taught a sizeable audience of spoken word artistes on perfecting their
act “From Page to Stage”).
DONNA has been called upon for landmark events where only the finest acts are selected such as Nigeria’s 1st
Cultural Trade Show (2014) tagged “Business Meets Culture” hosted by
the Nigerian-German Business Association, the Lagos Black Heritage
Festival and the WS 80 (celebrating Professor Wole Soyinka). DONNA was
also the only Nigerian and one of 11 women elected by ONE.ORG for the
National Month of Poetry, 2014 on its “National Poetry Month: Uplifting
Verses From 11 Strong Female Poets”, alongside greats like Maya Angelou
and Naomi Shihab Nye. She is also the only Nigerian female poet elected
to feature in British Council’s video tribute to the International
Women’s Day for the year 2015.
Her debut audio album “Water For Roses” has been released and is due to be launched later in the year 2015.
DONNA is daughter to Prince and Princess
Babatunde Ogunnaike, and a sister to four brothers. She is married to
Babatunde Shodipo (Junior) and her goal in her words is “to give
everything I have as woman, wife, mother, legal adviser, counselor,
poet, author – in all areas of my gifting and talents, and to ensure
that I die completely empty, at an old age, having done everything in my
ability to share myself to the world.
DATE: Sat, 15th October, 2016
TIME: RedCarpet-4pm = Main Event-5pm
VENUE: Plot 1610B, Alhaji Masha Rd, Off Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere,
Lagos.
Gate fee: #500First 5 persons to be at the venue, from 4pm - 4:15pm gets 20% discount on the tickets...
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