Poet Omo Uwaifo does not beat about the bush. He goes to the heart of the matter, making every word to count. He does not dance around the subject, as he admits, “I cannot afford the luxury of the young who probably would have chosen to hope and wait for politicians to find the courage to tell them what the problems are and what they plan on doing to fix them.”

Nigerian Theatre has remained a myth, or at best, a mirage. We saw it coming, then it was not there. Truly Nigerian Theatre died with the Rat Race, poverty and lack of education will not allow Theatre to take root in Nigeria especially after independence.

A specter is haunting Africa-the specter of identity-crisis. The sons and daughters of the Mother Continent have over the centuries been brutally severed from their roots through a series of Western-oriented programmes and a history of a systematic agenda of cultural genocide that has plunged the mass of African humanity into a current state of inauthentic existence and the corresponding episode of soul-searching in the hope to once again come to grips with the African self and reality.

For Nubia House Arts School, the training platform of Nubia House productions limited, the producers of the popular TV soap opera, Private Sector, Saturday, October 16, 2010 marked a significant water shed in the school’s history as three major events were celebrated.

Delta State Cultural troupe which performed to a rapturous audience during the celebration of Nigeria’s golden anniversary at Tokyo, the Japanese capital, returned a few days ago to Asaba with tales of pleasant experiences. The 30-member contingent that comprised 20 staff of the performing arts division of DSCAC and 10 officials drawn from the Directorate of Culture and Tourism, and Delta State Tourism Board.