FOR a man in his nineties, T.M. Aluko still has a very alert mind, and he has come up with a new novel that bears benedictory testimony to his venerated craft. Our Born Again President, a 218-page novel of intrigues in the affairs of state, tells the compelling story of David Tanbata who leads his country to independence and later becomes transformed in a Pentecostal manner not unlike the Biblical Saul-turned-Paul on the road to Damascus.

IN what looked like the first official visit of the acting director general of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, Muku Sabo Abudullahi, Sunday last week to the Lagos office of that federal parastatal responsible for the preservation and promotion of contemporary Nigerian arts and artists, the comatose centre, which in the last two years, under the leadership of Chief Joe Musa enjoyed unprecedented beehive of focused and determined visual art activities symbolically marked a return of life.

Contrary to the notion that T.M Aluko has not been accorded his rightful place in the Nigerian literary tradition, what happened last Monday at his Apapa, GRA residence remained a clear testimony of how much the octogenarian writer is held in high esteemed within the nation’s arts and literary circle.

Jelili Atiku’s kind of performance theatre, the type , he prefers to describe as Installation Theater is already generating interest  as to how art in its gorilla tactics can engage societal vices. Atiku’s kind of performance  seeks to address the socio-political plights of modern existence. Staged in odd places like the market environment and  inside […]

THE second leg of the London based, Kambani Art and Access Bank art initiative, Mirror the Master, successfully took place in the ancient city of Benin, Edo State from October 26 through 29. This successful tour came on the heels of the group’s upscale tour of the art city of Oshogbo, where participating students interacted with notable artists in the town including renowned Jimoh Braimoh.

MULTICHOICE, Nigeria’s leading premium pay-TV providers, has formally launched DStv Access adding to its existing premium, compact and family bouquets. DStv Access comes with 27 world-class channels at only N1,500 monthly subscription. It is expected to provide access to many Nigerians wishing to watch high quality television programmes.
Describing the launch, which held at the weekend in Lagos, as momentous, Joseph Hundah, managing director, MultiChoice Nigeria, said: “

IT was with pomp, class and pageantry that the 2009 edition of the re-branded Ozuruimo Festival held at Owerri, Imo State. The four-day pan Imo State cultural and arts festival began, October 28, 2009, with a colloquium paper delivered by Prof. Aloy Ejiogu, of the University of Lagos. The theme of the thought provoking lecture, which held at the expansive Multi-Purpose Hall, Owerri, was:

DR T.M. Aluko was attacked by stroke, August 27, 1987 after attending the annual general meeting of Heinemann Educational Books in Ibadan, taking with it, his right writing hand. This almost put paid to the writing and engineering career of this foremost Nigerian satirist-novelist of the colonial-colonised relations and transitions.

THE second leg of the London based, Kambani Art and Access Bank art initiative, Mirror the Master, successfully took place in the ancient city of Benin, Edo State from October 26 through 29. This successful tour came on the heels of the group’s upscale tour of the art city of Oshogbo, where participating students interacted with notable artists in the town including renowned Jimoh Braimoh.

He is referred to as one of the pioneers of the lens profession. He is, Tam Fiofori, a fascinating sort of artist/journalist, a veteran, who has written about art, music and culture almost as prolifically as he has photographed them. But only almost. Up close, Tam Fiofori has a grasp of sociology, poetry, filmmaking, philosophy and all kinds of other endeavours, and this makes him a photo-archivist of unusual relevance.