Nike Art Gallery, Shyllon Museum, others delight art enthusiasts at Etravel Summer Tour
By Onyeka Ezike Participants in the Lagos Summer with Mr Nonso recently embarked on a memorable cultural and artistic tour of some of Lagos State’s foremost creative destinations, as part of efforts to explore the state’s tourism potential and promote Nigeria’s rich artistic heritage. The event, organised by the Chief Executive Officer of Etravel, Uche […]
National Troupe in Isreal for Drama fest
A team from the National Troupe left Nigeria for Israel last week to be part of a one week long theatre festival. The team comprises the Artistic Director, Mr. Martin Adaji, the guest director Professor, Segun Ojewuyi , three actors sourced from the theatre community and three crew members including a stage manager and technical director.
Tourism without art is merely desert walk
The Nigerian artist is ready for the ‘international market, but he needs to web his domestic commercial environment and create a local market for his productions.
In Nigeria, we should write books that are culturally relevant- Ezeigbo
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, serial award winning writer, gender scholar and professor of English at the University of Lagos was chairman of the Panel of Judges for the 2011 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas,$100,000 Prize for Literature. In this interview, Ezeigbo spoke to McPhilips Nwachukwu about the whole processes leading to the selection of the winner as well as about other sundry issues. Excerpt:
The Eponym: Tunde Babawale@50
THERE comes a time in the annals of a nation and, even in the history of an institution when the admiration so warmly felt for an illustrious personality is made explicit and concretized in obvious terms.
A journey around Igbo Ukwu bronze
The Igbo-Ukwu objects which carbon-date to 9th AD is said to constitute one of the richest bronze treasures in Nigeria and best in the world though, they have not received relative publicity like those of Benin bronzes, Ife terra-cottas and Nok terra-cottas
