With ‘Nsi: After the Harvest’ we tend to examine how histories and labour shape our land – Azu Nwagbogu
…as AAF, CATPC intercultural exhibition and symposium holds in Lagos African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), a Nigerian based art institution supporting contemporary art, design and culture, in collaboration with Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), from the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC), will hold an art exhibition and symposium titled: “Nsi: After the Harvest,” […]
Ojeikere’s journey through camera
Honour they say should be given to whom it is due.†In line with this popular saying, the children of one of the greatest photographers of our time and the man who was made famous for documenting the transformations and variations found in traditional hairstyles worn by women in Nigeria J.D Okhai Ojeikere in commemoration of his 80th birthday last week presented a powerful birthday gift to him for all his contributions towards their upbringing and for his contributions towards the growth of photography in the country.
Commonwealth winner, Tricia Nwaubani, reads for Abuja writers
The June 26, 2010 edition of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s (AWF) Guest Writer Session will feature the winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book ( Africa ), Tricia Adaobi Nwaubani.
When the Empire mis-writes history
Taking cue from the Foreword, which Dr Ikenna Kamalu provides for Ozah Michael Ozah’s book, Proudly Ukwuani: History and Culture, which attempts to locate, what would have amounted to a more brilliant and significant contribution to an aspect of Nigeria’s post colonial narrative; and in particular, to the history of what late Professor Onwuejiogwu described as “ history of Igbo cultural areas†but failed to do so by deviating to scheme his own theory of history of origin and culture for the Ukwuani sub-group of the Igbo tribe.This review will attempt to investigate how Ozah as a post colonial narrator has faithfully or unfaithfully re- writes, what his book, purports as misrepresentations of some aspects of Ukwuani history .
Toyin Adewale-Gabriel leads June Poetry workshop
The monthly creative writing workshop organised by the Abuja Writers’ Forum(AWF) continues on June 26, 2010 with Toyin Adewale-Gabriel as the facilitator. Her work has won awards from cultural institutions and she is a Fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude and has been Writer-in-Residence at the Villa Waldberta, Munich, and The Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, in Visby, Sweden.
International Colloquium on slavery, slave trade and their consequences
The Osun State Government, through its Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding ( a category 2 Unesco Centre), in conjunction with Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), PANAFSTRAG and the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation is organising an International Conference on Slavery, Slave Trade and Their Consequences.
