Reimagining reality from Yusuf Durodola’s New Gaze
Durodola explains his motivation in framing perception as both a subject of interest and method, saying, “While the eyes allow us to see, it is perception that enables us to negotiate the presence of our reality.”
Kunle Adegborioye in a throwback narrative
When Kunle Adegborioye set out to visit his home country, Nigeria from United Kingdom where he’s based, nostalgic feelings propelled him to embark on a research on throwback encounters. And such, is the outcome of what metamorphosed into his recent body of works showing at Omenka Art Gallery, Lagos.
‘The civil war, symptom of primary disease’
As a society, even though the war seems to have been over 48 years ago, it almost seems as if it was just yesterday that the war ended because there are consequences of the war and until we are able to talk about it and heal from it, it will continue to haunt us for a very long time.
Grammy award winner, Gerald Albright, Dolapo Osinbajo feature at World Jazz fiesta
The Nigeria version of United Nations Educa-tional Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO World International Jazz Festival 2018 will hold on Sunday April 29 at the Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos, and leading the array of stars in this jazz carnival will be the famous Grammy award winning jazz maestro, Gerald Albright.
Nnamdi Agbakoba battles cultism, terrorism with Deep Secrets
No talk can be too much today about the importance of rediscovering the lost culture of voracious reading in an age of the internet and social media. It is therefore a welcome start when this book, Deep Secrets by Nnamdi Agbakoba begins with the universal axiom: Readers are leaders.
When artists vend flesh while the country burns
. She found it ridiculous that Fela with his kind of powerful instrumentation was lyrically preoccupied with irrelevancies when his country and Africa, with its rich history, was in the grip of social, political and economic enslavement.
