ART lovers, cultural practitioners, art collectors and connoisseurs as well as students are in for a treat as Art X Lagos sets out to position the West African region, and specifically Lagos, as an important destination on the global cultural calendar.

The family of Africa’s foremost scholar of Oral Literature and award-winning novelist Prof. Isidore Okpewho who died on September 4th, 2016 last week announced arrangements for his final rite of passage. The prolific author of over a dozen books and scores of academic articles was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, New Jersey, United States of America on Saturday, September 17.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, whose provocative and often brutal look at American life in works such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’’ died on Friday at the age of 88.

Little wonder, the audience that gathered at Quintessence Bookshop, Park View, Ikoyi, venue of the book reading could not help but gasp, exclaim and heave a collective sigh after Edify Yakusak, finished reading a portion of her debut book, After They Left.

The artistic life of Lagosians is bound to be rekindled as the organizing committee of MUSON has put plans in motion to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MUSON Festival of the Arts scheduled to hold in Lagos, from October 14 through 30.