AnuOluwapo Adelakun earns AMVCA nomination for TheCable documentary

AnuOluwapo Adelakun, former director of video productions at TheCable, has been nominated for the 2024 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA).

Adelakun was among the five filmmakers nominated in the best documentary category of the AMVCA on Sunday.

She was recognised for her three-part documentary, titled ‘The Water Manifesto’, which was filmed in Osun, Enugu, Rivers, Lagos and Abuja.

Adelakun’s documentary was premiered on TheCable’s YouTube channel in December 2022. The production highlights the dangers associated with the widespread paucity of clean water and how corruption and politics excacerbate the issue.

Kenneth Gyang(Sowing Hope), Lavera Ndanunga(Ormoilaa Ogol), Sihle Hlophe(Lobola, A Bride’s True Price), and Charlie Khisa/Mark Wambui(Empalikino) were also nominated in the documentary category of the AMVCA.

Since its release, ‘The Water Manifesto’ has earned rave reviews and contributed to the conversation about the pollution of water bodies.

In October 2023, the documentary won the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting.

The annual award, organised by the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), is the world’s largest and most comprehensive environmental journalism competition.

Adelakun, who holds a master’s degree in journalism and documentary practice from the University of Sussex, is a founding member of the Women’s Economic Imperative (WEI).

She is also a UNICEF Voices of Youth alumni, Carrington Youth Fellow of the US Consulate in Nigeria, US Consul general award recipient, UN Women/Empower Women global champion for change, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Chevening alumna, and the United States Government Exchanges Alumni Association (USGEAA) awardee.

‘The Water Manifesto’ was executed for the 2022 Bertha Fellowship in partnership with Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF) and TheCable Newspaper.