THE just concluded week long Life in My City festival, which held in the coal city of Enugu, no doubt recorded strong achievements in many ways and also reveals that there are still rooms for serious improvement. As a cultural festival, the project initiated three years ego by an Enugu based outdoor advertising company, ROCANA Nigeria Limited, with collaborative support of Alliance Francaise, Enugu and Nigerian chapter of Pan African Circle of Artists, PACA, has in the spirit of its founding father, chief executive officer of ROCANA, Robert Oji, largely succeeded in re-inventing the use of art and culture in re-mobilizing youths towards a positive social development.

In this modern age, it takes more than being able to paint with the brush or sculpture before one becomes a creative or renowned artist. For Andrew Ikechukwu Emueze being an artist is a dream come true. “I have always wanted to be an artist.

The Nigerian theatre is in a deplorable indeed lamentable State. The noble legacy from the relics of colonial education which includes the introduction of the proscenium theatre presentation is dying by the day and the government is not as much as batting an eyelid.

ART over the ages has been an expression of the characteristic attitudes of the people of an age. Art deals with our emotion as well as our intellect: it is another kind of non-verbal language and expression of human creative talent especially in a visual form for example painting and sculpture. This piece features on […]

BY  DOKI GODWIN JEFF IYORWUESE Hagher is undeniably a household name in the African literary establishment because his writings (especially the plays) are curiously and quintessentially rich both in terms of aesthetics and thematic preoccupations. In most of his writings, Hagher is passionately concerned with the issue of leadership and  in play after play the […]

BY EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE POETRY is said to be a method  of expression that thrives on   spontaneity of powerful emotions that are given distinct artistic colour and flavour through the use of appropriate literary devices and diction. By practical extension of this perception,  poetry should be characterised by grace and beauty of language through the use […]

In the last few weeks, the serial documentary has focussed on such African legends as Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and Wangari Maathai the environmental rights crusader and Nobel Peace Prize winner from Kenya. Soyinka is the only writer so far featured.