Aderopo Afolabi’s Lens on Women Living with Albinism
By Osa Mbonu-Amadi Nigerian visual artist and photographer Aderopo Afolabi, in this research-based work, stages concepts of identity, representation, cultural memory, and belonging. Focusing on lived experiences of women in underrepresented communities, the artist weaves visual narratives that reveal societal stereotypes about women living with special needs. Aderopo basically works using photographs to shape individual […]
Open sores of Hopeless Nation…
Our Nation Our Hope is a 200 page book, written by a retired Senior Broadcast journalist, James Egbuchulam, which documents exhaustively, contemporary Nigerian life beginning from the birth of the Nation in 1914.
Omenka Gallery, committed to production of knowledge
A line in the Nigerian national anthem reads:“the labours of our Heroes past shall never be in vain.”As a manifestation of this prayerful wish, the family of one of the first generation and greatest artists of the Nigerian art, late Prof. Ben Chukwukadibia Enwonwu in honour of the indelible archievements left by the accomplished artist of pioneer contemporary art in Nigeria, established the Omenka Gallery as a place of research, exhibition and production of knowledge.
3rd Achebe Colloquium on Africa holds at Brown University
The third annual Achebe Colloquium on Africa will be held at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA from 3-4 December, 2011.
Interesting times for Nigerian literature
Being excerpts from the keynote address delivered on the occasion of the public presentation of Red Nest by Arc. Thelma Nwokedi.
Budiso: Through years of locust in power
Recent command performance of Budiso, a play written by Fred Agbeyegbe, one of Nigeria’s theatre Icon and first recipient of the Living Legend Series Award by National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP) was a play among plays.
