The event which according to the Secretary of CORA, Toyin Akinosho was the 7th Arthouse forum brought many art lovers especially lovers of Yeni Kuti to Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos venue of the occasion.

he Federal Ministry of Tourism Culture and National Orientation in collaboration with UNESCO last Tuesday May 24th joined the world to mark the 2011 World Day for Cultural Diversity

After successful take off of the well received International cultural Exchange programme with two plays; Preemeptive and Seven last year, the organisers of the event, Zimrage Multimedia has announced its preparedness for the second leg of its internal programme.

In this present age when modernisation or civilization has robbed our children and youths the needed time to listen to folk-tales and stories from their parents, the need to come up with other means of impacting the right values to them becomes the problem. And many people have come up with many ways of addressing the problem and one of the ways is through writing of books.

Flora Nwapa published Efuru in 1962, four years after Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. I did not know all of this then at that age but I was fascinated that she was a writer because whatever else that occurred to me that African women could be, writing was not one of them. We had had career days right from kindergarten where we were exposed to all the available career options that awaited us

Among the oft-cited second generation of Nigerian literary scholars, to whom the credit of sustaining the dignified heritage of Nigerian literary intellection as diligently inaugurated by the now legendry pioneers of the tradition is most glowingly ascribed, Onuora Ossie Enekwe is undoubtedly a leading light.

Expressing candid opinion is not something serving public servants often engage in. That’s not Dr Iyorwuese Hagher, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, in his latest book, Nigeria: After the Nightmare

The 10th Nigeria International Book Fair(NIBF), which officially opened with book exhibition at the Multi-purpose Halls of the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, on Monday, 9th May, 2011 came to its high point on Tuesday, 10th with a critical appraisal of the impact of new technologies on the African Book Industry.

As Hollywood and Bollywood stars shine at the premiere of the sexual drama “Sleeping Beauty” the toast of the Cannes Film Festival, nothing to show from Nollywood the so called second largest movie industry in the world.

The Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, will today at the Draper’s Hall host a colloquium and Festschrift in honour of a grade critic of African Literature and erudite Harvard Professor, Francis Abiola Irele, who turns 75 May 22, 2011.

Sometimes, a man’s profundity may be better appreciated when seen in person. Such was the case with the man in the spotlight at the April edition of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s Guest Writer Session.

As the Nigerian International Book Fair began in Lagos, Nigerian born but United States of America based writer and book promoter discusses how the new forms of social media can help to drive the future of book culture, market and promotion.

Engr Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon, Founder /CEO, Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation, OYASAF is a major art collector and player in the emerging Nigerian Visual Art Market. In this exclusive interview with Arts on Sunday Vanguard, Shyllon speaks on the beauty of this emerging market and its challenges.

The book “Jurisprudence of Sovereignty – Commonwealth States; Political Instability and Crisis of Constitution Making”, is an incisive jurisprudential examination of the crisis of sovereignty in six selected commonwealth states – Cyprus, Malaysia, Pakistan, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria by Dr Chris Anyanwu

BY CHIKE OFILI As he marks his 80th birthday, reading Professor Chukwuemeka Ike’s Sunset at Dawn (1976), one does not know how to understand it. Is it a historical piece of writing, a fictionalised history, or both? What is however clear in this seeming dilemma of choice is that Ike does not want the gory […]