Nigerian Theatre has remained a myth, or at best, a mirage. We saw it coming, then it was not there. Truly Nigerian Theatre died with the Rat Race, poverty and lack of education will not allow Theatre to take root in Nigeria especially after independence.

A specter is haunting Africa-the specter of identity-crisis. The sons and daughters of the Mother Continent have over the centuries been brutally severed from their roots through a series of Western-oriented programmes and a history of a systematic agenda of cultural genocide that has plunged the mass of African humanity into a current state of inauthentic existence and the corresponding episode of soul-searching in the hope to once again come to grips with the African self and reality.

For Nubia House Arts School, the training platform of Nubia House productions limited, the producers of the popular TV soap opera, Private Sector, Saturday, October 16, 2010 marked a significant water shed in the school’s history as three major events were celebrated.

Delta State Cultural troupe which performed to a rapturous audience during the celebration of Nigeria’s golden anniversary at Tokyo, the Japanese capital, returned a few days ago to Asaba with tales of pleasant experiences. The 30-member contingent that comprised 20 staff of the performing arts division of DSCAC and 10 officials drawn from the Directorate of Culture and Tourism, and Delta State Tourism Board.

AN exhibition featuring four foremost and apparently oldest visual artists in Nigeria opened penultimate week at TERRA Kulture, Victoria Island as part of activities that marked the nation’s 50th anniversary.

Last week at the prestigious Eko Hotel and Suit, Lagos, where the Management of Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas, NLNG in collaboration with the National Gallery of Arts, NGA inducted about 21 Nigerians including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, Ladi Kwale, Fela Ransome Kuti into the National Hall of Fame, late brilliant theatre scholar, poet and playwright, Esiaba Irobi beat LNG laurate, Ahmed Yerima and Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba to win the 2010 LNG literary prize for drama to the tune of $50,000.

For Nigerian indigenous languages to be preserved and saved from total extinction, there is an imperative need for the government at all levels to encourage the production of indigenous language films reports,

When the idea of holding an annual international photography festival was conceived by the African Artists’ Foundation,AAF, it was clear at the official opening ceremony of the exhibition, that the organizers never envisaged a massive turn out of a fantastic crowd comprising virtually, individuals representing nations of the world such that it exposed the organizers as lacking in a proactive approach to events management, and the essence of art as a pivot for socio-cultural interactions among people.

Without a doubt, M-Net has indeed wrung out a winner with the All Star Edition of Big Brother Africa. The logic was simple: every Big Brother Africa fan had a season they considered the most exciting largely because of the housemates that brought the show to life.

ON October 1, the National Theatre came alive as a mammoth crowd made up of both young and old, students and pupils, suckling and lovers, who occupied every nook and cranny of its perimeter, overflowed the main road close to the entrance gate, forcing vehicles to park wherever there was space.