FOR many art collectors and lovers who have been looking for how to acquire knowledge about art works in the Lagos art market, a new window of opportunity was opened last week as a new book that celebrates the rich expressions, accomplishment and creative talents of Nigerian artists and their works in private collections in Lagos titled; Contemporary Nigerian Art in Lagos Private Collections was officially presented to the public.

As part of its avowed mission to empower the people by promoting reading culture and bringing books and other instructional materials closer to the people for better education and self-improvement , the Nigerian Book Fair Trust Fund last week held its 11th edition of the Nigeria International Book Fair (NIBF 2012) at the Multi-purpose halls of the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

THE Learned, a 340 paged book is authored by Italy based Nigerian Dr Ikenna Kaius Ikejezie, who has proved himself, through this publication an intellectual, who though resides in far away Italy, is versatile with historical facts about Nigeria as well as possessing sound knowledge of how religion should be applied in critical times.

FOR many art collectors and lovers who have been looking for how to acquire knowledge about art works in the Lagos art market, a new window of opportunity was opened last week as a new book that celebrates the rich expressions, accomplishment and creative talents of Nigerian artists and their works in private collections in Lagos titled; Contemporary Nigerian Art in Lagos Private Collections was officially presented to the public.

THIS Thursday, the sky will shed tears, the cloud will scream, heaven will quake and the stars will mourn, the arrival of a guest uninvited, given a brutal exit from mother earth, for being a man of peace. Yes, another soul will go down under the rubbles of sand.

THE sordid news of his brutal murder in the wee hours of penultimate Friday by some shadowy gunmen, resonated with anger, anguish, disgust and wailing in many homes where Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde was loved and admired for his resourcefulness, literary craft, creativity, industry and gifted wits.

THE death last week in Lagos, of an A list Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos and Professor of Computer Science, Prof. Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, sadly marked an end to a progressive era of academic governance and productive scholarship.

…Calls for states govt collaboration
Determined to make the country a hub for world heritage, National Commission for Museums and Monuments, NCMM has proposed three more sites for enlistment in the global heritage sites just as the commission calls on government of states to come to the help of the country’s heritage through support.

Biographical writing is not only about what one achieves in life, but also about the challenges one encounters in the discharge of life entrusted responsibilities as well as one’s envisioned programmes for the progress of society and humanity.

Every literature that exists does so because there is in existence a language in which it is created or expressed. In other words, if there is no literature and there never can be literature in the absence of language. And so long as there are native speakers of any language, the language will thrive and live with or without the existence of creative or imaginative or realistic literature.

SINCE inception, the talking drum is played uniquely by the Yoruba people, although many other African tribes play talking drums, majority sometimes do not go beyond the peripheral to display the exact meaning but only showcase basic rhythms of drum conversations.

Following several calls for the promotion and projection of the nation’s rich cultural heritage against the rate at which westernisation overwhelms African culture and traditions, there have been several attempts by groups, organisations and individuals to preserving Nigeria’s great cultural endowment.

As Arthouse Contemporary Limited, one of the foremost art promoters in the country holds the eighth edition of its economic promising art auction tomorrow , what will be upper most in the mind of many who have followed the developments in the third tier art market will be whose work will win the day?

Readers of this review will wonder at what makes funeral, which in its deep denotative African sense is seen to be a harbinger of pain, anguish and sorrow an aesthetic exercise. Ironically, this exigency in pain, sorrow and loss at some levels provides rich and deep cultural, religious and scholarly aesthetics.

15 track gospel music discs titled; Song of Unity from the porch of St. Michael Catholic Choir, Enyigogu Mbaise is a worthy re-invention of the dwindling Catholic Church music being continually threatened by modern day Pentecostal church songs.