Ibeme Laurina’s ‘Fragments of Time’ turns memory into marks, layers and form
Through the intimacy of drawing, the expressive possibilities of painting and the layered nature of mixed media, Ibeme Laurina invites us to look at time not as something we have lost
Niger State ready to host NAFEST 2009
In preparation for the hosting of this year’s National Festival of Art and Culture (NAFEST), Governor Babangida Aliyu has said that projecting the rich cultural heritage will be central to a successful rebranding project of the nation.
How Nigeria’s cultural art played lead at Algiers’s PANAFEST
The Federal Government’s Policy of economic diversification and direct foreign investment procurement efforts, received a boost with the overwhelming reception of Nigerian Craft products at the forty (40) year old continental Pan African Cultural Festival, held in Algiers, the Algerian Capital City, from July 5-20, 2009.
Mbari: A museum of appeasement among Ndigbo
The Mbari architectural structures, commonly seen among the Mbaise and Owerri people of Imo State was an artistic appeasement to the gods, especially, the thunder god, Amadioha.
Osondu’s Caine Prize, another literary honour for Nigerian writing
The winning of the prestigious prize in 2001, by Nigeria’s Helon Habila through his entry, Love Poem invigorated a new competitive spirit in the nation’s huge stock of emerging literary writers.
Pavarotti resurrects at MUSON Centre
The occasion was the graduation concert put together by the second set of beneficiaries of the Music scholarship programme of the MTN Foundation. Graduating were 24 young men and women who had undergone training in Voice, Classical Music, Music composition and Arrangement, as well as Repairs of Music Instruments.
