IT was another weekend of entertainment last week as theatre lovers in and around Lagos were held spell bound with plethora of performances that cut across a number of unconventional spaces in the city of Lagos during the Lagos theatre festival 2013.

LAST week launch of a debut novel, titled “Jacky The Hardworking Spider”, authored by Glory Osandatuwa, was to Nigerians, a strong indication that another Nobel Laureate may have been born in Nigeria, and this time, from Warri in Delta State.

Adegoke Odukoya also known as Ade Bantu, a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist, is founder of the Afro-German musical collective and leader of Bantu & Afrobeat Academy Band. The KORA award winner in this interview, lets readers into his life, music and thoughts about Nigeria. Excerpt:

Short of giving details of the anticipated repossession of Nigerian artefacts from France, Usman insisted that diplomacy remained the “best and only option for now and we would change our strategy if it’s not working.”

The world today is witnessing a situation bedeviled by violence of diverse magnitude, anarchy, starvation, health challenges, evil of the highest order, corruption, poverty, war in the homes and among nations. And in the face of all these, hapless individuals have responded with despair and negative confessions.

Writer, Journalist and Filmmaker, Casey Imafidon kick-starts the first quarter of the Abuja Writers Forum’s readings for February at Hamdala Plaza, Plot 23, Jimmy Carter Street, off Protea Hotel, Asokoro, Abuja.

Twenty seven years ago,the NYSC cultural festival started as the director’s Dance/Drama competition; a theatrical presentation in camps to entertain course officials and corps members during the orientation programme.

The Federal Government, penultimate week in Abuja disclosed that it would collaborate with the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the U.S Department of States to promote art and craft and the country.

Short of giving details of the anticipated repossession of Nigerian artefacts from France, Usman insisted that diplomacy remained the “best and only option for now and we would change our strategy if it’s not working.”

The world today is witnessing a situation bedeviled by violence of diverse magnitude, anarchy, starvation, health challenges, evil of the highest order, corruption, poverty, war in the homes, nations and among nations. And in the face of all these, hapless individuals have responded with despair and negative confessions.