After her first solo exhibition in 2006 titled, Patterns of Life that tried to draw the attention of the female folk on the need to catch up with others in the events of life, one of Nigeria’s female studio artists that is bent on making a statement in the male dominated art world, Chinyere Ofodile Okanume is out again with another solo exhibition titled Beyond Bound, an exhibition of paintings, oil on canvas, mixed media with fine stones, fabrics and native mat.

For one week beginning from March 23rd to April 1, Lagos will welcome men,women and children from all races, histories, and cultures, in her mission to animate the past, celebrate the present, and illuminate the future as it opens the biggest festival in Lagos State otherwise known as the Black Heritage Festival 2013 edition.

Today, this Column is taking time off from politics and all the associated issues of corruption, to treat our esteemed audience to the profile of a great personality who, if we were asked, would be the Column’s nominee to lead the crusade against corruption, injustice and other social vices in which Nigeria is totally immersed.

In an event well attended by mostly, Lagos Literati, 77 year old British journalist, Kaye Whiteman, was the centre of attraction as the writer and former editor of the West Africa magazine, was last Thursday, hosted by the Committee for Relevant Arts (CORA).

Utimanik Suites, Grace Bill Road, Eket, in Akwa Ibom State, will on March 30, play host to lovers of literature and the state’s Literati as one of Nigeria’s budding authors Godwin Ekpe launches his two poetry books.

The 1998 graduate of Geology from the University of Calabar who also holds a Masters in Geophysics from the University of Port Harcourt, with the release of The Mirror of Self and The Soul of a Poet has ventured into the deep world of poetry.

“There was a dim grandeur about it all, and also these seemed to a fate. Here was this head center of iniquity, spared by us from its suitable end of burning for the sake of holding the new seat of justice where barbarism had held away, given into our hands with the brand of Blood soaked into every corner and …….. fire only could purge it, and here on our last day we were to see its legitimate fate overtake it (1)

For one week beginning from March 23rd to April 1, Lagos will welcome men,women and children from all races, histories, and cultures, in her mission to animate the past, celebrate the present, and illuminate the future as it opens the biggest festival in Lagos State otherwise known as the Black Heritage Festival 2013 edition.

Dan Oluigbo, popularly known as chief priest, is one of the pioneers of Nollywood who disagrees with the ovation Nollywood is currently enjoying both from within and outside the country. In this exclusive chat with Vanguard Art, the movie maker xrays the industry’s problems and charts a way forward. Excerpts.

THE Village Master”, one of the few dramas that excited the Nigerian television stations in the 80s is on the news for the second time in barely a year. Reports about the now rested TV drama, which was created by late Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia and cultural icon, Olusola Olusegun, made headlines late 2012 when the producer exited the stage after a very brief illness in a Lagos hospital.

…creates Lagos zone
The new Board of Trustees and an Organsing Committee of Life in My City Art Festival (LIMCAF), the yearly celebration of creativity and fresh talent in the Nigerian art landscape, has outlined new measures for a successful hosting of this year’s festival.

What would you say is the defining character of The Third Wave of Nigeria Poets?
We have to be careful at this point. If there were no defining characteristics there will be no need for the differentiation in the first instance. And such dissociative markers do not lend themselves to very neat summaries; because they are several. So we may peep at their watermarks.

By August 30, 2013, Nigeria’s living Legend and foremost artist, Professor Bruce Onabrakpeya would turn 81 and from all indication, Nigerians and indeed, the entire world are yet to witness more amazing works from the grand artist as he seems poised to do greater exploits.

Abby, my Yoga student and events planner per excellence and an art enthusiast of the highest order asked me just a fortnight back.” Mike, have you ever heard of a musician by the name of Rodiriguez?” I answered in the negative. She thensaid that she had a docummentary on the guy on the Ipad and that I should view it while she got on with her yoga postures.

In what looks like a dramatic come back to her first love, Funmi Ogbogu, daughter of renowned artists Ernest Azubuike Emdim, aka Negro Arts recently opened a new art gallery for business. The Micro Biology graduate of University of Benin who claims that art flows in her family disclosed that she opened the gallery in order to meet the demands of many art collectors in Nigeria especially those in Lagos mainland.

Nike Davies Okundaye is arguably one of the most popular artists in the Nigerian art scene. She is the founder of Nike Centre for art and culture, an art centre committed to the promotion and development of Nigerian art and culture.