The Arts

Colours, culture on display as Victoria Island carnival lights up Lagos

Colours, culture on display as Victoria Island carnival lights up Lagos

By Prisca Sam-Duru & Onyeka Ezike Victoria Island Lagos’ daily activities, usually marked by deafening sounds from corporate engines, horrific traffic and noise from several commercial activities are being replaced  by a different kind of vibe – entertainment. This is as Downtown Promotions lights up the streets of Victoria Island with its unveiling of the maiden […]
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Cleansing cancerous attitude of waste in a nation

Cleansing cancerous attitude of waste in a nation

WHEN it comes to exhibitions, Raqib Bashorun can be described as a big masquerade, he does not exhibit often, but each time he exhibits there are always lots of messages from it. For the Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) trained sculptor, painter who has exhibited widely and whose works will be situated anywhere in the world because of the quality, his greatest regrets has always been the fact that Africans especially Nigerians do not take the messages home rather they look at the aesthetic and throw away the contents.

Onobrakpeya: Masks of the Flaming Arrows for launch

Onobrakpeya: Masks of the Flaming Arrows for launch

THE official launch of a book, Onobrakpeya: Masks of the Flaming Arrows, an exceptional body of work which demonstrates the versatility of Professor Onobrakpeya’s works and showcases a broad range of masterpieces from his glittering career spanning over 50 years is scheduled to hold on Friday, May 16th, 2014 by 2.00 pm

Ima-Mariam Agunbiade rolls out two new books

Ima-Mariam Agunbiade rolls out two new books

KNOWLEDGE they say is power and that is reason why Barr. Ima-Mariam Nike Agunbiade after acquiring that knowledge is bent on transfering it to the younger generation. This she have been doing through research, books and establishment of schools in Nigeria.

   Bon voyage in Molue mobile museum

  Bon voyage in Molue mobile museum

A MOLUE with unusual accessories which parked outside the Lagos City Hall on Catholic Mission Street, Lagos, penultimate week, attracted a lot of passersby who at first could not understand what it was there for.

This molue is in town! Do not marvel when you see it with a flat screen television, standing fan, light refreshments, art works and a book stand as well as Caucasians, eminent Nigerians , healthy children who ordinarily, have no business boarding a Molue.