Unsilenced, Unstoppable: African women reclaim power, Identity at historic UK summit
By Prisca Sam-Duru, Croydon London Women are indeed a rare and divine species. The aura exuded by leaders like Bell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill, Her Royal Highness from Nigeria, African UK beauty queens, entrepreneurs, journalists, and cross-industry executives at the Hilton London Croydon last weekend was nothing short of blissful. Gathering from […]
Nigeria’s security problems are transient – Ehindero
Mr Sunday Ehindero is former inspector general of police. A lawyer by profession, he has been in private legal practice since his retirement in 2007. An author of several law books, Ehindero holds the record of being the police lawyer to appear before the high court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
Benin culture on display with Agho Obaseki
The Agip recital Hall of the Muson centre Lagos, weekend was full to the brim with an enthusiastic crowd who defied the heavy downpour to feel the thrill of stage action as young actors and actresses from the Atlantic Hall Drama Club, performed Agho Obaseki, a play written by Don Pedro Obaseki. The play was produced by the Atlantic Hall Drama Club, and directed by veteran stage director, Gboyega Gbiletan Jerome.
The Flight of the Eagle: Tribute to Chinua Achebe
The news of your transition came suddenly, Like a bolt out of the blue, turning my morning to misery, Bringing shock, disbelief, pain and grief, So unexpected was it that I was stunned for days. There I was far away in the calm city of Charleston, USA, Swimming in a river of pain, bewildered. Death […]
My encounter with bead painting – Lanre Buraimoh
By Starrys Obazei Nigerian born and American based Lanre Buraimoh is a bead painter. Being a rare and technical genre in visual arts, the Yoruba born artist has successfully explioted the beauty and challenges inherent in this art form. In the course of his work, he has had a brilliant time out on canvass with […]
Girls in the Time of War
The suffering that war elicits has engaged the minds of novelists all over the world. The female aspect of war somehow depicts in its starkness the cruelty that bloody fighting engenders. AdaOkere Agbasimalo in The Forest Dames brings to bear on the devastation of war a motherly compassion in a manner that puts deep wounds in the soul.
