Other People’s Sundays
By Nasirudeen Muritala I have watched families eat togetherthrough windows I was never invited behind,a father stealing meat from his child’s plate,a mother complaining about the messwhile secretly smiling at it. They make ordinary things look sacred,school runs, arguments, birthdays,someone shouting from upstairs,“Have you seen my keys?” and another voice answering from the kitchen.I used […]
Tinubu according to Ofeimun in Nigeria the Beautiful
LAST one week, the busy city of Lagos was agog with flurry of activities as friends, former colleagues and huge admirers and fans of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu celebrated his 60th birthday.
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.
