The interest of the church in visual art has a long history. During the 15th and 16th Century AD the Church became major patron of visual art. This move, which was necessitated by the revival of Rome, began when Pope Martin V returned the Papacy to Rome from Avignon in1420.

The on going photographic exhibition tagged; 1960: Nigeria at Independence being shown at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan is uniquely, a commendable template with which chroniclers of Nigerian history can re-image or re-memorise the events that shape the “geographical expression” , called Nigeria fifty years ego.

The two day stakeholders culture conference that held at Bolingo Hotels &Towers, Abuja under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation last week was seen by many ministerial watchers as a landmark development and probably, a harbinger to an end of the prolonged call for a National Culture Policy for the country.

After a two day critical conference on the draft of 2008 National Cultural Policy in Abuja last week, stakeholders drawn from the Culture and Tourism industry, academia, Federal Inland Revenue Services, media and independent and group culture interventionists unanimously called on the Federal Government to review the provisions of Section 4 of the contentious 2008 draft.

Even writers, in their quite quarters are also deep in thought about how best to celebrate 50years of Nigeria’s journey to adulthood. Having at all times pioneered, the project, today popularly knowns as “ rebranding” through the various creative genres of prose, poetry and drama, the restless spirit, Muse will still not allow some writers rest, but will rather continue to prop them to the other side silence: the un-rebranded side of the nation’s tangible and intangible social, material and historical culture.