Smile Studies: Uncovering the social mask behind that facial curve
By Osa Mbonu-Amadi Nigerian visual artist and curator, Adeola Ayoyinka Erinfolami investigates embodied emotions in a new series aptly titled, “Smile Studies.” As the broad title suggests, Smile Studies anchors on the various shapes of the mouth accompanying a smile. This collection demonstrates Adeola’s interest in turning fashion and textile materials into documentations. Each piece […]
Abami Eda’s Portrait from Kalakuta Diaries
The memories and life of late Afrobeat music leg end Fela Anikulapo Kuti came alive last week when friends , family members and followers of the revolutionary social crusader gathered at Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island for the public presentation of a new book about him entitled Kalakuta Diaries written by a friend and former personal aid to Fela, Uwa Erhabor.
Adekoya’s recital of Isabella’s birth pang
THE novel Isabella Testimony By Esther Adekoya begins on an interesting note, in a hospital ward with the scene of a woman in pains, and about to give birth. We are let into the back and forth of conversation between the attending nurse and Isabella’s husband, Michael. The conversation is written in an easy prose which makes it quite believable.
Ogbuefi Achebe’s songs to immortality
IT is said that “if you don’t want to be forgotten as soon as you die, you either write something worth reading or do something worth writhing about.” That is the number one law of immortality.
Unveiling Udondian’s power of Textile
When Victoria Udondian’s solo exhibition tagged Open Studio event is opened to the public in April at 1b Olabode Street, Ajao Estate, Lagos, viewers will no doubt become captivated with the artist’s commitment to the reclamation of the power of cloth as both an embodiment of beauty, symbol of power and repository of communal history.
From US, May Nwoye goes oily
Award winning novelist and University of Benin Bursar, Dr. May Nwoye, has returned with a new novel, Oil Cemetery.
Emissaries as totemic narrative
In continuation of its bid towards the promotion of lens based media, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos last week opened another unique and visually compelling photographic exhibition by Adolphus Opara tittled: “Emissaries of An Iconic Religion”.
Abami Eda’s Portrait from Kalakuta Diaries
The memories and life of late Afrobeat music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti came alive last week when friends , family members and followers of the revolutionary social crusader gathered at Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island for the public presentation of a new book about him entitled Kalakuta Diaries written by a friend and former personal aid to Fela, Uwa Erhabor.
Beyond bounds of Nation’s illness on canvass
After her first solo exhibition in 2006 titled, Patterns of Life that tried to draw the attention of the female folk on the need to catch up with others in the events of life, one of Nigeria’s female studio artists that is bent on making a statement in the male dominated art world, Chinyere Ofodile Okanume is out again with another solo exhibition titled Beyond Bound, an exhibition of paintings, oil on canvas, mixed media with fine stones, fabrics and native mat.
LABAF’s season of homecoming
For one week beginning from March 23rd to April 1, Lagos will welcome men,women and children from all races, histories, and cultures, in her mission to animate the past, celebrate the present, and illuminate the future as it opens the biggest festival in Lagos State otherwise known as the Black Heritage Festival 2013 edition.
Chief Sam Odighi Udinyiwe Igbe – A Cultural Icon, A purist
Today, this Column is taking time off from politics and all the associated issues of corruption, to treat our esteemed audience to the profile of a great personality who, if we were asked, would be the Column’s nominee to lead the crusade against corruption, injustice and other social vices in which Nigeria is totally immersed.
