Faith, translation, and the fracturing of cultural identity in Mount Zion’s ‘Abejoye’
In Abejoye, set as it is in Yorubaland and abroad, language itself becomes a site of estrangement. When Dele asks whether Baba’s utterances are prayers or incantations, the question betrays a dislocation
Artefacts without Provenance?
DOROTHEUM, the Viennese auction house, is holding another auction of African artefacts on April 2, 2012. Readers may recall that in an article entitled Auction of Arican Art by Dorotheum, Vienna.
Ighile Sculpture revisits Oba Ovonramwen’s Saga
COME April 12, 2011, Nigerian born artist, Osaretin Ighile, will present a solo sculptural exhibition at the Sokoto Gallery. Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity.
‘Pirates of the Penzance’ graces MUSON Centre
Recently, Sir Emeka Nwokedi, foremost Nigerian Musical Director, Voice Coach and Conductor added another feather to his cap with an exceptional musical production in a concert held at the Shell hall of the MUSON Centre Onikan, Lagos.
Screening Africa’s Media at IREP Festival
The annual International Documentary Film Festival, IREP dedicated to the promotion of Documentary filmmaking as a veritable medium through which desirable change can take place in the world, came to high point last week on the day two of the programme as issues affecting operation of the media in Africa were discussed.
The Osoba Newspaper Years
The glamour that attended last week’s public presentation of the book, Osoba: The Newspaper Years, written by the duo of Mike Awoyinfa and Dimgba Igwe, was an indicator of the quality of the subject of the book, Osoba, and journalism, which he represented.
