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Azuka Oforka

Azuka Oforka , born on December 4th 1981, is a Soap Opera Actress. She is best known for role as as nurse Louise Tyler in Casualty.   Casualty is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One. It is the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world, and also the most enduring medical drama shown on prime time television in the world. Azuka joined the show back in October 2011 as an Ambulance Control Officer. She left the show in February 2019.   Azuka is the daughter of Professor Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu, the first UK sickle/thalassaemia nurse specialist. Sources - Photo: IMDb, Info: Wikipedia, digitalspy dot com, bbc dot co dot uk, 

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi is a Nigerian artist, art historian, and curator, currently Curator of African art at Cleveland Museum of Art. He was raised in Enugu and studied under sculptor El Anatsui at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, before traveling as an artist and curator. In the United States, he completed his doctorate at Emory University in 2013 and became the curator of African art at Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art. In 2017, he moved to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Nzewi has curated the Nigerian Afrika Heritage Biennial three times, the Dak'Art biennial in 2014, and independent exhibitions at Atlanta's High Museum of Art and New York's Richard Taittinger Gallery.  On July 22, 2019, he will join The Museum of Modern Art, New York, as the first Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator.  Sources: contemporaryand dot com, wikipedia, artnews dot com, artsy dot com