After successful hosting of the London leg of the the second edition of the inter cultural exchange tagged ,WS7728086 organised by Zmirage as part of the celebrations of the 77th birthday of the renowned playwright, author and Africa’s first Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka that culminated in the performance of Dance of Liberation at Theater Tabernacle in Nottingham, Nigeria’s leg and final stage of the event kicked off in Lagos week end with a lot of activities.

Ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGOM), which holds in Perth, Australia from 28th-30th October, 2011, the Managing Director of the Commonwealth Business Council, (CBC) Mr Steve Godfrey last week paid a courtesy visit to the Director General (DG) National Gallery of Art, (NGA), Dr Abdullahi Sabo Muku.

United Against climate change is an advocacy drama on climate change adaptation written for University of Nigeria’s inauguration of its climate change adaptation programme. As an advocacy drama on climate change adaptation, it represents a unique literary landscape on the plane of creative discourse.

Last week’s enactment of one of Nigeria’s famous literature, Things Fall Apart written by world acclaimed literary Giant, Professor Chinua Achebe, at the Agip Recital Hall of the Muson Centre, Onikan Lagos, by Pupils and Students of The Childville Schools Ogudu GRA Lagos, indeed highlighted the beauty of Stage Plays.

The long awaited moment for the celebration of 77th birthday of Africa’s first Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka last week, in faraway London kicked off with a well attended red carpet reception.

In Nigeria, abundant hair on a woman’s head is a sort of pride and dignity. A long and abundant hair of a woman is a sort of power of sexual attraction, thus, in the past, if not to the present, Nigerian women show great care and concern for hairstyling to enhance their beauty and flesh out their relevance and value in the society.

All is now set for the official re opening of The New Nimbus Gallery located at 9-11Maitama Sule Street, S/W Ikoyi, Lagos.

A s part of its commitment to deepening the promotion of African arts, Guranty Trust Bank, whose former Managing Director, Tayo Aderinokun died last month, has a pact with Tate Gallery of Modern Art, with the view to expanding the frontiers of African arts.

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a professor and former head of the English Department, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

It was another intellectual gathering penultimate week, as authors from different parts of the country converged at the ancient city of Ibadan for the third edition of what has become an annual ritual that brings together the highest number of authors in Nigeria, otherwise known as authors forum.

Pottery is one of the craft of the ancient Nigeria that is still being practised in most parts of the country today. It is Nigeria’s most cultural material that has caught the attention and interest of early British archaeologists

A line in the Nigerian national anthem reads:“the labours of our Heroes past shall never be in vain.”As a manifestation of this prayerful wish, the family of one of the first generation and greatest artists of the Nigerian art, late Prof.Ben Chukwukadibia Enwonwu in honour of the indelible archievements left by the accomplished artist of pioneer contemporary art in Nigeria, established the Omenka Gallery as a place of research, exhibition and production of knowledge.

Dearth of books is a major contributor to the decline in education in the country. The rare sight of books has even created strangeness between books and people.

Chika Unigwe was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now lives in Turnhout, Belgium, with her husband and four children.

She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and an MA from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She also holds a PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, having completed a thesis entitled “In the shadow of Ala: Igbo women writing as an act of righting” in 2004.

Music lovers especially lovers of the art music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music otherwise known as classical music were last Monday treated to a scintillating session of what would be described as a harvest of songs by the graduating students of the Muson School of Music.