La Rêve (The Dream) is one of Picasso’s most sensual and famous paintings, said to have been painted in one afternoon, on January 24, 1932, at the age of 50.  It depicts her lover, 24-year-old Marie-Therese Walter, sitting on a red armchair with her eyes closed.

Kenny Fasipe, music producer and the Managing Director of Glory Music which houses the online radio, Glory Vibes Radio, has identified rhythm as being responsible for the revolution that took place in the Nigerian music industry.

Professor James Tar Tsaaior’s I Am Chibok: #BringBackOurGirls is a collection of poems that encapsulates the wicked incidence of April 2014 that saw the abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok Secondary School, in Borno State.

For societies to make meaningful progress, the basic assumptions of its rulings class must continuously be interrogated. No serious society should leave critical state decisions solely in the hands of politicians without engaging such ideas in an intellectual judo. This intellectual confrontation is the role of social critics and public intellectuals, one which Ayodele Adio has lent his pen to.

Ake festival brings together Novelists, poets, dancers, actors, illustrators, activists, musicians and artists to share their work and their ideas.