Titus Okereke treats us to a world worth living in his book, Our Fathers’ Land – Including Reminiscences on the Nigerian Civil War. This is the first book of its class, an autobiographic tale well told, to come out of an alumnus of the old University College, Ibadan, from a graduate of the early sixties, 1960-1964.

After participating in many group exhibitions and many years of working behind the scenes building and nurturing students at the Federal College of Education (Technical ) Akoka, Festus Adeyemi is out with his first solo exhibition titled Between the lines, an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and mixed technique arts.

After many months of waiting, the Buhari led federal government finally announced the appointment of ministers with their portfolios. While, many sectors of the economy saw the announcement and appointment as a positive development, others did not see it that way.

I was a member of the panel. Basically, we ensured that the shortlisted stories went through a critique process, suggestions were given after which the playwrights went home with feedback. At the end, only 4 plays would be chosen and performed at the Lagos Theatre Festival. So, they just went through the process of development and that’s why we had a couple of theatre professionals on the panel to assist them fine tune their works for public performance.

Arrangements have been concluded for the take-off of the 2015 edition of Ake Arts and Book Festival, a yearly literary feast, billed to hold at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto-Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital. Expected at the festival which begins from Tuesday November 17th through Thursday 21st, are some of world’s renowned writers, filmmakers, artists, scholars and thinkers for the 5-day event.