The Arts

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 […]
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Wole Soyinka: How I failed to teach Odia Ofeimun

IT was a hilarious moment last week when snow wearing hair styled Africa’s first noble laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka surprised everybody, when he stated that he failed in his duty as a teacher by not converting Odia Ofeimun to the culture of wine drinking

Moses Zibor, Timeless Energy and Societal dynamics

As part of the objectives of Nike Art and Culture Foundation to play home to numerous forms of artistic expression, the magnificent art centre owned by renowned textile artist and painter, Oyenike Davies Okundaye located in Lekki Roundabout in Lekki, Lagos last week played host to many art and culture lovers courtesy of her first exhibition of the year entitled- Timeless Energy: An Exhibition of Painting and Mixed- media by Zibor Moses.

An Itsekiri militant’s song

By Tony E. Afejuku You come floating In the wind of my mind – You come floating Quick, light and gay – You and your drums Of love This night, Like last night’s, Of distant beating Of drums of war And love for Fatherland and motherland Despoiled by desponds of land-thieves. I’m hearing and listening […]

How not to kill George Azubike’s art…

They say that teachers rewards are in heaven. But the state of the economy and the way teachers are neglected in Nigeria have forced many teachers to reject that promised heavenly promise by insisting to have their rewards here on earth.

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