The Arts

Where metal remembers and pattern speaks: The art of Tayo Ayelowo

Where metal remembers and pattern speaks: The art of Tayo Ayelowo

By Osa Mbonu-Amadi Across three recent exhibitions—Phases at the Didi Museum (2025), Swans Females in Art at Signatures & Beyond Gallery (2026), and the 2026 group presentation at EbonyLife London.  Tayo Ayelowo affirms a more distinctive voice in contemporary African and diasporic art. Ayelowo works with acrylic paint and  recyclable African print off cuts on […]
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Trinity gift from Betty Abbah

Trinity gift from Betty Abbah

It was indeed a celebration of faith and victory over the devil as friends, colleagues and literary icons gathered at the banquet Hall of Excellence hotel, Ogba, Ikeja for the public presentation and launch of a book titled, “Sound of Broken Chains”, a collection of inspirational and revivalist poems…

Self-empowerment, key to success

Self-empowerment, key to success

Lack of self-empowerment principles have been noted to be responsible for students falling apart before completing their studies in school and they end up, blaming their misfortune on one reason or the other.

The Essential Fela Kuti…

The Essential Fela Kuti…

One of the biggest music festivals in Africa,Felaberation hosted annually, in honour of music legend and pioneer breeder of the afrobeat brand, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was held last month in Nigeria’s cultural captial of Lagos. In this excerpt taken from one of Fela’s scholars, Carlos Moore titled, The Ultimate Social Rebel published in his book; This Bitch of A Life, Vanguard arts serves our readers the freshness and vitality that define the late legend’s art.

Buhari advocates conceptual art as tool for national development

Buhari advocates conceptual art as tool for national development

It was another intellectual feast for many prominent Nigerians especially, people from the art circle, diplomats, captains of industries, students and other lovers of art that gathered at the main hall of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs last week for the celebration of the life and times of the greatest gift to Africa and the first African artist to have received an important sculptural commission in Europe, late Professor Ben Enwonwu who died in 1994.

Jonahan’s visual approach to inactivity in Nigeria

Jonahan’s visual approach to inactivity in Nigeria

After his first solo exhibition nine years ago, one of Nigeria‘s foremost master Pastel artist, Jefferson Jonahan last week came back with his second solo exhibition tagged State of Inertia.