Professor Tess Onwueme is one of Africa’s foremost female playwrights and a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, USA. The playwright, who has not only published severally, but is so globally studied was recently honoured with a new appointment as her university’s Professor of Global Letters.

In this abridged discourse shared at the Emporium, JBS Estate, Benin City on the occasion of the Seminar of the Eckankar Edo Area, Tony E.Afejuku , Professor of English at the University of Benin tries to prove some of the humanistic potentials of religion as a critical ingredient to fostering national harmony and unity.

The playwright, Greg Mbajiorgu, Senior lecturer in Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka wrote Wake up as a guest dramatist to African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS), Nairobi. He was commissioned to produce this climate change adaptation advocacy drama for the International Conference on Africa’s Response to Global Challenge through Science Technology and Innovation

One of Nigerian’s foremost artistes, Ikechukwu Andrew Emueze of Foundation for Black Heritage (FOBHE) has scheduled to hold a solo exhibition. The exhibition titled Harvest will be held at Imperial Chinese Restaurant, Victoria Island Lagos from the 1st of April ,2011 till the end of the month

The Executive Secretary of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Dr. Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma, has again stressed the need for parents to place priority on teaching their children indigenous languages

Miakpo Emiaso has courageously blazed a trail by publishing what is doubtlessly the very first full length work on the law, practice and procedure of modern customary courts in Nigeria

WORRIED by the continued increase in joblessness in the country, The Ogun State Governor, Otunba Olugbenga Daniel has advised students of tertiary institutions to learn a trade that would make them self employed

Professor Tess Onwueme is one of Africa’s foremost female playwrights and a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, USA. The playwright, who has not only published severally, but is so globally studied was recently honoured with a new appointment as her university’s Professor of Global Letters.

The poet, Ikeogu Oke, was the first writer in the year to feature at the regular Guest Writer Session organized by the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF). In this report, TUNJI AJIBADE, highlights on the key issues frothing from the reading.

In our Thespian discourse today, Dr AbdulRasheed Abiodun Adeoye of the Department of Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, discusses the role of a stage director as a critical factor in the realisation of theatrical objectives.

One of the greatest challenges of governance in Nigeria is the inability of most of the leaders and political office holders to document the account of their stewardship to the people, reports Japhet Alakam.

The adornment of streets and public spaces in Enugu with art was first undertaken during the Emeka Omerua regime in 1986. Though a worthy venture, the regime exhibited its lack of a sense of art value by simply taking art pieces from the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) and mounting same at strategic points in the city.

The Executive Secretary of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Dr. Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma, was the Guest Playwright at the Korean Cultural Centre in Abuja at the second edition of Play Reading Party, organized by Arojah Concepts and Korean Cultural Centre last week.

Isekiri is one of the many indigenous languages spoken in Delta State. It is mono_dialectal and is spoken by the relatively small but prominent Itsekiri people located in the lands around the western part of the Niger-Delta.

Princess Tessy Iyase-Odozi is a painter, curator and prime mover of the moving art exhibition who has made name for herself in the art industry both within and outside. She is the CEO of Green House Art Gallery, located in Olambe, Ogun State and one of the few women slugging it out in the male dominated art business.