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Mariama Ives-Moiba wins BAFTA Rocliffe Family & YA Media Award

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UEA alumna Mariama Ives-Moiba has won a BAFTA Rocliffe Family & YA Media Award for her animated series for 8-11 year olds, Aminah’s African Adventure. Mariama (pictured), who is of British and Sierra Leonean heritage, graduated from the BA in History at UEA in 2015 and from the MA in Scriptwriting in 2017. She was the winner of the Trinity International Playwriting Competition with her play A Concrete Jungle Full of Wild Cars in 2012, which was taken to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. She is currently on the BBC New Voices programme and was chosen for a three month paid placement with the BBC in Children’s animation, in which she will have the opportunity to pitch for CBBC shows.

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