The Ethnic Heritage Centre, Ikoyi Lagos came alive penultimate week as the Yoruba Lakotun, the quarterly cultural flagship programme, celebrated its first anniversary amidst pomp and pageantry. It was a celebration that colourfully showcased some of the Yoruba cultural heritage especially the talking drum and the beaded gourd (sekere).

Lagos Court of Arbitration, (LCA) has always been a busy place with people who visit the three storey building in Lekki Phase 1 Lagos for the resolution of commercial disputes via arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. But the centre was turned to a museum of sort as all the floors were filled with various types of artworks courtesy of a historic exhibition by one of Africa’s most respected artists, Professor Bruce Onobrakpeya and his Harmattan workshop.

A local adage says that “whenever a masquerade finishes dressing, it makes a noise” and that was what happened recently at the Banquet Hall of the National Theatre, Lagos, when the products of the 7th edition of the Children and Teens Creative Station came out and made a noise, and it was not just an ordinary noise, but a loud noise that caught the attention of people from all walks of life, especially children who came for the much publicized command performance of The Dented Anthill, a play directed by Peter Badejo.

ART lovers, cultural practitioners, art collectors and connoisseurs as well as students are in for a treat as Art X Lagos sets out to position the West African region, and specifically Lagos, as an important destination on the global cultural calendar.

The family of Africa’s foremost scholar of Oral Literature and award-winning novelist Prof. Isidore Okpewho who died on September 4th, 2016 last week announced arrangements for his final rite of passage. The prolific author of over a dozen books and scores of academic articles was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, New Jersey, United States of America on Saturday, September 17.