Moral burden of indolence in Hammed Bello’s No Food for Lazy Man
No Food for Lazy Man draws attention to often neglected phenomena in present day daily living with each frame conveying a series of messages that visitors will find relatable as they resonate with dominant societal beliefs and real life experiences.
Seduction of Shadows – A review of Femi Osofisan’s Love’s Unlike Lading
(Femi Osofisan wrote this play especially for the 3rd Garden City Literary Festival which took place in Port Harcourt in December. The play was performed by the Theatre Arts Students of the University of Port Harcourt and Directed by Dr Emmanuel Emasealu, immediate past Head of Dept. of Theatre Arts at Uniport
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
All around Richmond, folks are abuzz over Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, which opens this upcoming Saturday. But this past weekend, the VMFA welcomed an entirely different type of exhibition – Dynasty and Divinty: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria. The exhibition finds a natural home at the VMFA, where it sits nestled in with a very impressive collection of pan-African art — painstakingly curated by Richard Woodward — who said of Dynasty and Divinity that its place at the VMFA is “truly divine.”
Unmasking the Traitor
Traitor Unmasked is a timely, bold and well-delivered response to Micro-Seconds Away from Death by Wale Adedayo; erstwhile Chief Press Secretary to Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel (OGD). Traitor Unmasked paints a vivid picture of political treachery and hypocrisy by otherwise trusted political aides with opportunistic tendencies
Visual images in Season of Valentine
In line with the spirit of love and as part of his own special way of celebrating love in this season of Valentine, one of Nigerian’s avid art collector, painter, graphic artists, and the director of BiodunOmalayo Art Gallery, Biodun Omolayo, last week organised a group exhibition tagged Affectionate Pieces, an exhibition of contemporary art
Why I wrote my songs in Native language- Nketia
Ninety-year-old emeritus Professor of Music, John H.Nketia, of Ghana was in Nigeria last week on the invitation of the Creative Arts Department of the University of Lagos to talk on Politics and Music. After over a three-hour meaningful engagement with his assigned task, the strong and energetic octogenarian poster face of African music scholarship honoured the request of arts on Sunday to talk about his meaningful journey in music education, Pan African vision and their challenges.
South Africa, Nigeria dominate African Region for Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
The Commonwealth Foundation organisers of The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, one of the world’s most important literary awards last week announced the Regional Shortlists for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Hollajosha and Rave Studio
The latest wedlock in the music industry is between Hollajosh and Rave Studio. Hollajosh is a gifted musician and creative music producer while Rave Studio is the umbrella organization for Rave music and other entertainment outfits. With the rapidity of bush fire in harmatan, a new baby was born from the wedlock just last week. The new baby is known as MOSORIRE, a nine track Album.
Igba Uche Isiugwu: From Warfare to excellence
IT had a personal appeal to me, the Igba Uche ceremony of the Uke Item, this age grade in my town Isiugwu Ohafia in Abia state which my mother, Mrs Lucy Kalu Uduma belongs. That day, Dec 27, 2010, the members danced like never before
The book, The Fashola Revolution is a compendium on the developmental changes in Lagos State in the last three and a half years. It is written in lucid English dotted with photograph of projects commissioned by Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola. It starts with a map of Lagos State and the brains behind the Revolution who are the cabinet members
