NPL: How three authors turned pain, history and faith into poetry
By Prisca Sam-Duru The 2026 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature nears its climax parading three poets, three different obsessions, but one common urgency — to hold a mirror to Nigeria. James Ngwu Eze writes against fear and silence. Tares Oburumu interrogates the colonial name we still bear. Ogaga Ifowodo asks a disturbingly simple […]
A biography of Deacon S.I. Ojelabi
If one takes out the treatise on FIDITI GRAMMAR SCHOOL, from the biographical book, the remainder becomes peculiar to Deacon Ojelabi and to him alone. But with FIDIGRAMS added to it, the horizon widens on the character and personality of Chief Ojelabi as a tutor and mentor.
US dance team dazzles Lagos with Salsa
Battery Dance Company, a New York based dynamic cultural institution with global sensibility penultimate week held an exhilarating dance show at the New CBAAC Hall, National Theatre, Lagos.
Slices from the minefield of War
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s fifth and latest novel published by Jalaa Writers’ Collective, Lagos, in 2011 holds a memorable title, Roses and Bullets, and a picturesque front cover. The stout 518-page narrative presented in four segments is based on Nigeria’s most nightmarish post-colonial experience.
Eyo: Lagos growing Carnival
Eyo is one festival that the original owners of Lagos State look forward to with eagerness. In the past, it was said to be associated with secret cults. But in recent times, it has assumed some form of syncretism by not only involving participants from diverse religious background, but more importantly, has turned out to become one of the most important socio cultural picnics and carnivals.
A Day in Pelourinho
The word Pelourinho in Portuguese according to Wikipedia means whipping post. This taxonomy given to one of the most cultural nerves of Salvador Bahia in Brazil evokes both a sense of history, monument and culture.
