The event which according to the Secretary of CORA, Toyin Akinosho was the 7th Arthouse forum brought many art lovers especially lovers of Yeni Kuti to Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos venue of the occasion.

he Federal Ministry of Tourism Culture and National Orientation in collaboration with UNESCO last Tuesday May 24th joined the world to mark the 2011 World Day for Cultural Diversity

After successful take off of the well received International cultural Exchange programme with two plays; Preemeptive and Seven last year, the organisers of the event, Zimrage Multimedia has announced its preparedness for the second leg of its internal programme.

In this present age when modernisation or civilization has robbed our children and youths the needed time to listen to folk-tales and stories from their parents, the need to come up with other means of impacting the right values to them becomes the problem. And many people have come up with many ways of addressing the problem and one of the ways is through writing of books.

Flora Nwapa published Efuru in 1962, four years after Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. I did not know all of this then at that age but I was fascinated that she was a writer because whatever else that occurred to me that African women could be, writing was not one of them. We had had career days right from kindergarten where we were exposed to all the available career options that awaited us