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A NEW KICKSTARTER IS LAUNCHED:

The National Portrait is conceived as a symbol of national unity in Nigeria. It symbolizes the beauty and strength of our unity in diversity.

With 371 unique and distinct tribes, Nigeria is indeed so richly blessed with individual talents which can be harnessed into a collective strength when properly embraced. It is for this very reason in this critical period of our nationhood that we have decided to initiate this project which would identify each piece of the Nigerian puzzle and combine them to showcase the strength therein. As we say, “Nigeria is not a mistake, mistakes don’t survive a hundred years”; also “the diversity of our nation is the beauty of its perfection”.

 National Portrait

The National Portrait is a photo collage of a male and a female model dressed in the attires of each of the 371 tribes. Thus National Portrait would be passing the message “it doesn’t matter what tribe you’re from, we are all one and the same”, hence the explanation for having the diverse attires from each tribe and just one face.

The National Portrait when completed would be unveiled to the world with dignitaries from across Nigeria in attendance; after the unveiling ceremony we would be presenting the Portrait to the Presidency or House of Assembly for ratification as a national monument. The tentative date for the unveiling of this monument is Sunday, 21st of May 2017; which is the International Day for Cultural Diversity and would be an ideal date to celebrate Nigeria’s Unity in Diversity.

 Project Execution Summary

·         This project is expected to cost us about $30,000 with costumes taking up the bulk of that associated cost. Other expenses we would incur include Make-up and make-over, portrait production, props and accessories.

·         Our strategy for raising the funds for the project is through a crowd-funding platform. We would be using Kickstarter to raise $30,000 for the project, the project would be allowed to run for about 30 days on kickstarter to gather the funds (January 30th 2017 till February 28th 2017). 

     This funding strategy allows us to build a global support base for the project.

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Gbagyi tribe

    Once we have achieved our funding objectives we would be moving on to the next phase which would be sourcing for costumes, accessories and the actual photo shoot. 

     The photo shoot is expected to take about 3 weeks of intensive shooting (This whole exercise would take place in March 2017). In sourcing for costumes and accessories we would be approaching members of the general public (in particular our close circle) to loan us costumes for the shoot, this would help us reduce the cost. We would also be visiting the host states of some of the tribes to gather costumes that we couldn’t get from the general public.

a photo compilation of different ethnic tribes

  ·      Once this is done we would be moving on to the next phase which is editing and post production, the large print for the portrait is also expected to be produced in this phase with alterations done where necessary. All of these activities should take us about a month (April 2017).

·         At this point we would be ready for the Launch/Official unveiling, we would be sending out invites to all the Traditional leaders, the State Governors, House of Assembly, Presidency, the respective federal ministries, religious leaders, International agencies, the Business community and some prominent Nigerians; this is to ensure that the National Portrait gets the global attention it deserves as a symbol of unity.

many roots

  It is our belief that this project is achievable as planned and we would be working assiduously to ensure that these objectives and plans are achieved as outlined.

Our end goal is that the National Portrait becomes a symbol of unity which would inspire Nigerians to work collectively in building a great nation in which everyone feels a sense of belonging. It is our dream to see replicas of the national portrait hanging on the walls of every public and private office.

Execution Timeline

February 2017:  Funds sourcing

March 2017: Costumes and Accessories sourcing, Actual photo-shoot

April 2017: Editing and Post production, printing and framing of portrait

May 2017: Official launch/unveiling of the National Portrait 

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