The Arts

Eze, Ifowodo, Oburumu make final 3 for $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

Eze, Ifowodo, Oburumu make final 3 for $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

By Prisca Sam-DuruThe Advisory Board of The Nigeria Prize for Literature has announced the final shortlist for 2026. Poets James Ngwu Eze, Ogaga Ifowodo and Tares Oburumu are now in the running for the `$100,000 award. The authors made it through from a longlist of 11, which itself came from 223 entries submitted early this […]
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Amos Bawa Telling the brave history of the Zurus

Amos Bawa Telling the brave history of the Zurus

The British colonial administrators had discovered the Lelna peoples’ bravery quite early, hence they admired and enlisted many of them into the First World War between 1914 and 1918

Unraveling the history of Lagos Brazilian Quarter

Unraveling the history of Lagos Brazilian Quarter

Atlantic Triangle, an exhibition of artworks organised by the Goethe Institute, Lagos, is set to tell the historical reconstruction of the conditions of exploitation through timely configuration of cultural dynamics and interdependence of the Brazilian Quarter in Lagos.

How the West consumes the earth

How the West consumes the earth

I reviewed a book once, starting by commending the excellent printing quality, binding, and finishing of the book. I was proud that the book was made in my own country, at the book making town of Ibadan. Let me start the review of this book, How Much is Enough?:The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth, written by Alan Durning, by discussing the cover illustration, of which, after reading the book’s content, you will agree with me that it effectively summarises the whole work.

Ndiche Umunakara:  The music and  dance of warriors

Ndiche Umunakara: The music and dance of warriors

Deep down the remote past, Nkaramoche inherited the eight slit drums (called ekwe), the music, and dance of warriors which his father, Oche, and his kinsmen danced once in a year to honour their ancestors. It was (and is still) a fiery music and dance beaten out of eight slit drums, playing eight hot, varied, and complicated rhythms. Why no other tribe in the world ever succeeded in copying this music and dance is quite understandable – it was associated with the Orieamafor deity. Thus, the ndiche music and dance became the only one of its kind in the world.