The on going photographic exhibition tagged; 1960: Nigeria at Independence being shown at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan is uniquely, a commendable template with which chroniclers of Nigerian history can re-image or re-memorise the events that shape the “geographical expression” , called Nigeria fifty years ego.

The two day stakeholders culture conference that held at Bolingo Hotels &Towers, Abuja under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation last week was seen by many ministerial watchers as a landmark development and probably, a harbinger to an end of the prolonged call for a National Culture Policy for the country.

After a two day critical conference on the draft of 2008 National Cultural Policy in Abuja last week, stakeholders drawn from the Culture and Tourism industry, academia, Federal Inland Revenue Services, media and independent and group culture interventionists unanimously called on the Federal Government to review the provisions of Section 4 of the contentious 2008 draft.

Even writers, in their quite quarters are also deep in thought about how best to celebrate 50years of Nigeria’s journey to adulthood. Having at all times pioneered, the project, today popularly knowns as “ rebranding” through the various creative genres of prose, poetry and drama, the restless spirit, Muse will still not allow some writers rest, but will rather continue to prop them to the other side silence: the un-rebranded side of the nation’s tangible and intangible social, material and historical culture.

Death among the Mbaise-Igbo of Nigeria like in other culture areas of Nigeria is a phenomenon that has deep symbolic implication between the living and the dead. Among Mbaise-Igbo, the occasion of death like the occasion of birth is celebrated with deep emotional attachment.