Rose Okeke

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Location
Abuja, Nigeria
Expertise
Skin and Nails, Relationships, Fashion
  • Rose spends a lot of her time gathering fashion inspo from social media to create mood boards for personal photo shoots and video shoots. She usually posts these shoots on her socials.
  • She wrote a YA Fantasy book about African mythology, Child of the Corn, that is yet to be published. In 2022, Rose won the James Currey Prize for African Literature for her manuscript, at the University of Oxford.
  • An avid filmmaker, Rose has written, produced, and starred in three short films so far. One of the films was nominated for an award in a competition.

Experience

After graduating with a bachelor's degree in science in 2017, Rose started writing for The Nation newspaper as a freelance journalist, covering topics such as education, healthcare, entertainment, and human rights. In 2019, she became a resident writer for The Consent Workshop, a human rights NGO. She soon found an outlet for her love for animals and nature by writing for A-Z Animals. Rose is also a lover of film and entertainment. She writes and produces her own short films which have been screened in film festivals around the world.

Education

Rose graduated in 2017 with a degree in Applied Biochemistry. She completed her Industrial Training at the National Assembly Medical Department.

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