Professor Tess Onwueme is one of Africa’s foremost female playwrights and a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, USA. The playwright, who has not only published severally, but is so globally studied was recently honoured with a new appointment as her university’s Professor of Global Letters.

The poet, Ikeogu Oke, was the first writer in the year to feature at the regular Guest Writer Session organized by the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF). In this report, TUNJI AJIBADE, highlights on the key issues frothing from the reading.

In our Thespian discourse today, Dr AbdulRasheed Abiodun Adeoye of the Department of Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, discusses the role of a stage director as a critical factor in the realisation of theatrical objectives.

One of the greatest challenges of governance in Nigeria is the inability of most of the leaders and political office holders to document the account of their stewardship to the people, reports Japhet Alakam.

The adornment of streets and public spaces in Enugu with art was first undertaken during the Emeka Omerua regime in 1986. Though a worthy venture, the regime exhibited its lack of a sense of art value by simply taking art pieces from the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) and mounting same at strategic points in the city.

The Executive Secretary of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Dr. Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma, was the Guest Playwright at the Korean Cultural Centre in Abuja at the second edition of Play Reading Party, organized by Arojah Concepts and Korean Cultural Centre last week.

Isekiri is one of the many indigenous languages spoken in Delta State. It is mono_dialectal and is spoken by the relatively small but prominent Itsekiri people located in the lands around the western part of the Niger-Delta.

Princess Tessy Iyase-Odozi is a painter, curator and prime mover of the moving art exhibition who has made name for herself in the art industry both within and outside. She is the CEO of Green House Art Gallery, located in Olambe, Ogun State and one of the few women slugging it out in the male dominated art business.

t was a bad new year gift for the entire staff of the National Troupe of Nigeria and especially the ten male artist dancers working in the performance company of National Troupe of Nigeria, as an early morning inferno last Monday razed down the male camp of the artistic hostel located just a few metres away from the snack and drinks bars popularly known as (abe-igi) at the National Theatre Iganmu, Lagos.

For NICO to engage in this innovative project means that its administration really understands the importance of taking inventory of our affairs. It is a clear evidence of the fact that the Institute understands that the culture sector can help, in no small measure, in massaging our ailing democratic process.

Nigeria’s 50 years since the attainment of independence to many, have been a turbulent march towards nationhood. Looking at past records on economic issues, high rate of unemployment, individuals especially youths’ involvement in societal ills and worst of them all, an inclement political climate which became disastrous during years of military dictatorship, one ponders if the country’s golden jubilee was really worth celebrating.

Perhaps deriving from the fact that security which is the most important and all pervading issue in national life has not been given its due place by the Federal Government as the Police which is saddled with the responsibility of maintaining law and order have been having daunting challenges in doing that in decades; many individuals and organisations have come up with alternative suggestions in the last few years, each with its own way of contributing towards addressing the security challenges facing the nation.

Last October Nigeria , the most populous country in Africa celebrated 50 years of its existence as an independent nation. And in the spirit of that golden jubilee celebration, many individuals and groups rolled out drums for the great event.

Africa’s foremost female playwright and Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, USA, Osonye Tess Onwueme has been honoured with a new appointment as the University Professor of Global Letters at her institution.

Young Nigerian author, Vincent Okwudili Ibeh, was celebrated on Africa Youth Day in Abuja, November 1 2009, where he presented his award-winning book, What Our Youths Were Not Taught…. In this interview, he spoke to Maxim Uzoatu all about the life changing book.