§ About the Centre
A room of one’s own,
for every maker.
Kabiesi Ademola Centre is an Abuja-based house of makers — a gathering of filmmakers, writers, engineers, painters and technologists building a new archive of African imagination.
§ 01 — Mission
To give creatives what they most lack: time and company.
We commission, host and publish work across five disciplines — media, AI, ICT, content and film. Every programme is designed to return the artist to their practice with rigor, care and a public.
§ 02 — Vision
An African centre for making, seen from anywhere.
We imagine a decade in which the most interesting films, essays, tools and images of the continent are made here, by fellows who came through these studios and stayed connected to its courtyard.
§ 03 — Story
How it began.
The Centre began, quite literally, as a room. A single studio on Adeola Odeku Street, lent by a friend, where a handful of filmmakers, coders and writers met on Saturdays to share work in progress and argue past midnight.
What we noticed, over the months, was how rare that room was — how few places in the city held space for a filmmaker and a machine-learning engineer to sit across the same table, or for a poet to be edited by a photographer.
Named after Kabiesi Ademola — a family patron whose home was always open to makers — the Centre grew, one discipline at a time, into what it is today: five houses under one courtyard, rooted in Nigeria and open to the continent.
Rooted. Creative. Unapologetic. African.
§ 04 — What we believe
Craft over noise
We choose slowness, revision and depth over the churn of the feed.
Discipline in company
Makers get further, faster, when they work beside other makers.
African, in the world
We are of Nigeria, and we make for anyone paying attention.