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Chukwuogo-Roy won many awards and was featured prominently in the international media, both for her art and also for her charitable and educational work with young people. A biography entitled
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in Cross Rivers State, where her father had extensive cocoa plantations. She had six siblings. As a teenager she was a refugee in the
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