<p>This week’s episode of Eziokwu, Speaking Truths looks at the African Artists’ Foundation program titled YECA. Youth Empowerment through Contemporary Art is an initiative that teaches art to secondary school students in Lagos, Nigeria. We sat down with Mr Olayinka Songotoye and Udo Christopher Emmanuel to discuss YECA’s progress over the last few years and it’s plans for the future.</p>

This week’s episode of Eziokwu, Speaking Truths looks at the African Artists’ Foundation program titled YECA. Youth Empowerment through Contemporary Art is an initiative that teaches art to secondary school students in Lagos, Nigeria. We sat down with Mr Olayinka Songotoye and Udo Christopher Emmanuel to discuss YECA’s progress over the last few years and it’s plans for the future.

YECA - Youth Empowerment through Contemporary Art

Eziokwu, Speaking Truths is a bi weekly podcast presented to you by the African Artists’ Foundation is interested in exploring the intersection between art and contemporary African culture and the ways that it can shape self expression in our current moment. Through conversations with artists, curators and other cultural practitioners from various geographies across the African continent and the African diaspora, we unpack different forms of expression and the various ways we can reinterpret, reimagine and understand visual languages across Africa.

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YECA - Youth Empowerment through Contemporary Art

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