NACC to Honour Austen Peters with Excellence Award
The Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) will confer the Excellence in Cultural Innovation and Global Creative Industry Trailblazer Award on Bolanle Austen-Peters (BAF) in recognition of her exceptional visionary leadership in inspiring Nigerian creativity, promoting Africa’s cultural influence, transforming the continent’s creative landscape, and globalising African stories through groundbreaking innovations in theatre, film, cultural showcase, and creative enterprise.
Previous recipients of the Creative Economy Award include Mo Abudu, Richard Mofe Damijo and Femi Odugbemi.
The award will be presented during the Chamber’s April 2026 International Roundtable, themed “Policy and Governance Reforms in Nigeria’s Immigration and Border Management Sector,” in Lagos.
Austen-Peters is a Nigerian lawyer, award winning film and theatre producer, director, and cultural entrepreneur whose work has redefined Africa’s creative sector.
She founded Terra Kulture in 2003, which has evolved into Nigeria’s premier arts and culture hub, featuring a restaurant, art gallery, bookstore, language school, film production studio, and four state of the art theatres.
The institution has hosted over 300 art exhibitions, 200 stage productions, and 100 book readings, while providing a vital platform for thousands of creative industry practitioners and theatre professionals.
CNN has described her as “the woman pioneering theatre in Nigeria,” and Forbes Afrique has repeatedly named her among the Most Influential Women in Africa.
