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portrait C. J. «Fiery» Obasi, Nigeria

C.J. Obasi, nicknamed «Fiery» or «The Fiery One», grew up in the small town of Owerri in south-eastern Nigeria, where he watched Hammer House horror films and read Stephen King novels. As a child, he developed a talent for drawing comics based on his favourite films and superheroes at the time. He studied computer science at the University of Nigeria before starting to work as a filmmaker. Obasi submitted his first feature film, Ojuju, in 2014. The second feature film O-Town was a thriller. In …