Nigerian visual journalist and photographer Oluwafemi Oluwatobi Olajide presented a multimedia exhibition celebrating Nigerian culture and tradition at the Next Festival 2026 hosted by The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Titled Nigerian Joy, the exhibition featured archival inkjet prints, digital multimedia works, and traditional Aso Oke fabric installations that explored […]

By Enewaridideke Ekanpou Tompolo torn like tired towels and set ablaze in the furnace of verbal bandits on rampage… The blazing fire is the guardrail for the people; The guardrail that stopped the steep fall of the quarantined in Warri; The guardrail giving comfort where there was cold in the land. Tompolo is the roadside […]

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, […]