The Arts

Unsilenced, Unstoppable: African women reclaim power, Identity at historic UK summit

By Prisca Sam-Duru, Croydon London Women are indeed a rare and divine species. The aura exuded by leaders like Bell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill, Her Royal Highness from Nigeria, African UK beauty queens, entrepreneurs, journalists, and cross-industry executives at the Hilton London Croydon last weekend was nothing short of blissful. Gathering from […]
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A New Culture home for Goethe Institut

The German Cultural and information Centre, Goethe Institut , one of the very active European cultural organisations in Nigeria which has been homeless since December 2009 when it lost its former home located at Ozumba Mbadiwe Way, Victoria Island has finally acquired a new home in the central Lagos.

Hyphenating art logic

After a successful hosting of his last solo exhibition titled, What they did not teach me in Art School in 2009, where he argued about the state of art students after graduation, the Nsukka trained painter

Tasking Art Journalists in season of Elections

The quarterly programme in its 4th edition has become a critical platform through which culture journalists, industry leaders and culture stakeholders from across all the parastatals in the Ministry of Culture come together to engage not only their trade

Pa Ojeikere wins Chobi Mela VI Lifetime Medal

It was a moment of joy and honour for the J. D. Okhai Ojeikeres and the Nigerian art community when Ojeikere received the 2011 Chobi Mela VI Lifetime Achievement Awards in a colourful ceremony held in far away Bangladesh. With this award, Pa J. D. Okhai Ojeikere becomes the first Nigerian to receive the prestigious award for his outstanding contributions to photography and the development of the society.

And the winners are : Aminatta Forna, Cynthia Jele

At last, the Commonwealth Foundation, organisers of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the internationally recognised platform for promoting ground-breaking works of literature from across the globe, last week announced the regional prize winners from the four regions of the Commonwealth with works by Nigerian writers conspicuously missing from the list.

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