{"id":274285,"date":"2011-01-17T07:28:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=48092"},"modified":"2011-01-17T07:28:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:28:41","slug":"i-sold-arts-and-craft-igwe-gabosky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/17\/i-sold-arts-and-craft-igwe-gabosky\/","title":{"rendered":"I sold arts and craft\u2014 Igwe Gabosky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_48093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48093\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-48093\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/17\/i-sold-arts-and-craft%e2%80%94-igwe-gabosky\/gabosky\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48093\" title=\"gabosky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gabosky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Igwe Gabosky<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI\u2018d always dreamed of making it big as a business man. Four months  after my graduation, I was selected as a member of the Nigerian  contingent invited to exhibit Nigerian arts and crafts in Michigan and  Ohio in the United States of America.<br \/>\nFew weeks after my return, I was again contracted by an Italian firm  named Mazollini Arts to produce wooden works portraying Mary, mother of  Christ, Jesus Christ and his disciples in black mahogany woods. But we  carved\u00a0 Judas and the Devil in white woods.<br \/>\nI made $25,000 from that deal and with that money, I made my incursion into the export and import business.<br \/>\nOn one of my trips to Hong Kong, I ran into a group of Chinese people  shooting a movie and they needed some black men in the movie.<br \/>\nThe roles the blacks were made to play put me off and I vowed then and there to go into movie production.<br \/>\nIn conjunction with my partners, the first movie we shot was Nneka and the pretty serpent. The rest is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2018d always dreamed of making it big as a business man. Four months after my graduation, I was selected as a member of the Nigerian contingent invited to exhibit Nigerian arts and crafts in Michigan and Ohio in the United States of America. 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