EXCLUSIVE: Why I Am Making Black Medical Drawings–Nigerian Medical Student Chidiebere Ibe

Have you ever seen a medical illustration featuring a Black body? Social media users admitted they hadn’t when an image of a Black fetus in a Black woman’s womb after a future doctor’s illustration of a Black fetus went viral. Chidiebere Ibe, 25, is behind the image. He speaks with SaharaTV in this exlusive interview […]

Medical student Chidiebere Ibe brought Black illustrations to the medical field

Chidiebere Ibe spent 2020 learning how to create medical illustrations showing Black bodies. The illustration of Black fetus in the womb went viral. “I wasn’t expecting it to go viral,” Ibe, a pediatric neurosurgeon student, told NBC News. The 25-year-old from Nigeria, has a chemistry degree from the University of Uyo in Nigeria, is set […]