By Osa Mbonu-Amadi When Dotun Popoola’s eighth solo exhibition, “Reclaimed Beauty: A Dialogue Between Continents,” opened on June 12, 2026, at The Village by Tikera in Abuja, it arrived not merely as an art show but as a manifesto of transformation.  The exhibition presents 25 original sculptures and installations within 40 groups of organic-shaped, building-block-like […]

By Osa Mbonu-Amadi Aishat Musa’s artworks tell stories of loneliness, homesickness, and nostalgia with which diasporan Africans, especially in London, grapple. Crossing to Peckham, Jollof in Brixton, Night Shift at King’s Cross, Two Weather Hearts, The Underground Gospel, Letters Never Sent Back Home, Frozen Breath in Stratford, The Afro Hair Salon on Rye Lane, Silence […]

Poem: Bandits and the Bandit-users Author: Enewaridideke Ekanpou Reviewer: Henry Yeigagha  There are crimes that shake nations, and there are conspiracies that sustain them. The first arrives with noise; the second thrives in silence. The first is seen in the smoke rising from burning villages; the second hides behind polished doors, official titles, political calculations, […]

By Osa Mbonu-Amadi Nigerian visual artist and curator, Adeola Ayoyinka Erinfolami investigates embodied emotions in a new series aptly titled, “Smile Studies.” As the broad title suggests, Smile Studies anchors on the various shapes of the mouth accompanying a smile. This collection demonstrates Adeola’s interest in turning fashion and textile materials into documentations. Each piece […]

Book: Spiked Beyond Spikes Author: Ekanpou Enewaridideke Reviewer: Ebikabowei Kedikumo Ekampou Enewaridideke’s Spiked Beyond Spikes is a political novel set in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The novel presents a society divided by power, oil wealth, ethnic domination, poverty, and state violence. Through the figures of Alabeni and the Ozidi Boys, the novelist explores […]