CHARACTER 68 // THE NIGERIAN MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Chika Okafor
A broadcaster and event host from Lagos: vibrant, charismatic and quick at recovering. Contemporary and specific, not one textile as shorthand for a continent.
Tradition or identity: Nigerian. Background: Lagos.
Deep brown skin, a bright smile and a high natural hairstyle; a tailored emerald jacket over a cream outfit with bold patterned fabric lining and cuffs; a small Nigerian flag sewn accurately on her microphone case.
A comic showman built from one description, not a spokesperson for a nation, faith or people. National colours and symbols appear only where the founder specified them, drawn accurately and deliberately, never as shorthand for everyone who shares the identity.
Chika Okafor is one of 144 characters in the DEFROST.WORLD cast.