Award winning novelist and University of Benin Bursar, Dr. May Nwoye, has returned with a new novel, Oil Cemetery.

In continuation of its bid towards the promotion of lens based media, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos last week opened another unique and visually compelling photographic exhibition by Adolphus Opara tittled: “Emissaries of An Iconic Religion”.

The memories and life of late Afrobeat music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti came alive last week when friends , family members and followers of the revolutionary social crusader gathered at Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island for the public presentation of a new book about him entitled Kalakuta Diaries written by a friend and former personal aid to Fela, Uwa Erhabor.

After her first solo exhibition in 2006 titled, Patterns of Life that tried to draw the attention of the female folk on the need to catch up with others in the events of life, one of Nigeria’s female studio artists that is bent on making a statement in the male dominated art world, Chinyere Ofodile Okanume is out again with another solo exhibition titled Beyond Bound, an exhibition of paintings, oil on canvas, mixed media with fine stones, fabrics and native mat.

For one week beginning from March 23rd to April 1, Lagos will welcome men,women and children from all races, histories, and cultures, in her mission to animate the past, celebrate the present, and illuminate the future as it opens the biggest festival in Lagos State otherwise known as the Black Heritage Festival 2013 edition.