There is not a single culture in this world of ours that lacks music. People across the globe have fashioned instruments of all sorts to express the musicality inherent in them. It is about the only thing that engages both right and left sides of the brain.

Culture they say is a way of life, that is why every society has its own and strive to maintain it. But one ugly incident is that since the so called colonisation by the foreign powers that super imposed their culture on Africa, the continent lost most of its culture.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, Americanah, has just been named one of the Top 10 Best Books of 2013 by the New York Times. The list of the 10 best books is chosen by a team of editors at the New York Times, a newspaper widely regarded as the most prestigious in the world. The list, selected from thousands of books published each year, is eagerly awaited by the literary world and the wider public.

It was a day of double honour for the founder of Covenant Harvester Christian International Ministry, Dotun Ojelabi, as his latest offering to the world of literature, titled the Eagle personality, which lays bare the intricacies of the characteristics of an Eagle, focusing on how to win in life with positive attitude was presented to the public.

The recently held NAIJAZZ FESTIVAL 2013 fielded a fabulous feast of the best Nigerian Jazz and Jazz related musicians home and abroad who for two days serenaded many to various styles in the genre. There was jazz, highlife, agidigbo, afrobeat and lots more all mixed with a hint of original Nigerian flavor.