The Nigerian artist is ready for the ‘international market, but he needs to web his domestic commercial environment and create a local market for his productions

IMAGES are very strong.
They erect strong and eternal monument in human minds. Because of the importance attached to images, the civilized world appropriates it as an important tool in the definition of meaning, which of course, is seriously shaped by the managers of power.

Eugenia Abu needs no introduction. She is in her own words a multi genred professional: a journalist, poet and an educationist. The popular screen diva is also a creative writer and has published, A Blink of an Eye, a collection of essays and Don’t Look at me Like That, a collection of poems. Despite the intense demands of her job, Abu still, also finds time to run summer workshop programs for school pupils. In this interview, She spoke about her career, writing and education project. Excerpt

As music lovers in Nigeria still relishes from their wonderful experiences at the just concluded MUSON Festival, where different genres of music largely featured. Vanguard arts , today offers insight into the aesthetic and therapic power of this wonderful art form.

The Entrepreneurial Revolution by Peter Osalor is a 212- page book that explores the growing phenomenon of entrepreneurial activity, particularly its potential for reducing poverty in Nigeria and similar countries.

THE power of live theatre to capture human experiences was re-emphasised weekend with a play “Nigeria the beautiful” which heralded the 2011 Festival of Nigerian Plays, FESTINA, at the National Arts Theatre, Lagos.

COME weekend, Lagos-based journalist and performance poet, Akeem Lasisi, will play the role of lead performer/chanter and producer of WONDERLAND(eleleture)an album of musical poetry, in the public presentation of the album at the 1960 Hotel, Eagles Park, Ikeja, Lagos.

ABOUT 10 of about 30 paintings which are expected to decorate the walls of the exhibition hall of Quintessence Gallery, according to the graduate of College of Art, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana, would go a long way in fostering cultural integration among African Countries.

THE 14th annual Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON) Festival kicked off on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 with a variety of programmes crafted to capture the interest of lovers of art and music.

ALL is now set for the annual Ijakadi Day Festival which comes up on December 26, 2011.

In Nigeria today, National museum has become one of the important tourist centres for both the nationals and foreigners, old and young, the literate and illiterate.

Jonathan Murray Bruce is an Executive Director at Silverbird. In this interview, he spoke about the cinema business of the Silverbird Group and how it tries to expand the business in other to attain global standard.

Obari Gomba of the University of Port Harcourt in an essay titled; Power As Motif in Aniebo’s Rearguard Actions quoted popular theorist and polemicist, Chinweizu as saying that,” it must be a strange war indeed, which fails to produce literature.”

The book “Sin of the Father” is a social satire that mirrored a typical Nigerian society with its tendency to beautify wealthy people, especially the wealth- without-source folks who are ready to throw it around and buy anything they want including the leadership and even the clergy.

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation Agency, NOA, High Chief Edem Duke has declared October 22nd to 29th, this year to kick off the nationally celebrated National Arts Festival (NAFEST) slated to hold in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital.