The mood of everything at the Aina Onabolu complex of the Lagos branch of the National Gallery of Art last week was gloomy. It was not only gloomy, but simply put: displeasing to the heart.

The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation’s (CBAAC) annual Black History Month celebration held last week at the Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan with a stunning number of Professors and distinguished men and women in attendance.

The Ikom Monoliths are a group of stone sculptures found in small area around Ikom in Cross River State of Nigeria, inhabited by Ekoi people who live in scattered villages. The stone monoliths are known variously as Akwanshi or Atal or Alaptal.

For the master story teller, Onuora Nzekwu, famous writer of best-selling novel,Eze Goes to School, it was all accolades last week at the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) Hall, National Theatre Complex Lagos, when friends, family members, colleagues and government representatives joined him in a triple celebration of life as well as a sterling come back to the business of writing , fifty one years after his novel, Wand of Nobel Wood.

Last year, a synergy started well with the participation of Trinidad and Tobago in the 2011 edition of Abuja Carnival with the presentation of Steelband, a symbol of that country’s popular annual carnival to the Government of Nigeria.