I’m curating connections through storytelling, culture, creative experiences – GbolaJesu Amusa
By Ayo Onikoyi For many Africans living in the diaspora, culture often becomes more than tradition. It becomes memory, comfort, and belonging. For UK-based cultural storyteller, creative curator, and co-founder of Odyssey Media House, GbolaJesu Amusa, creating those emotionally meaningful experiences has quietly become part of her life’s work. Through storytelling-led campaigns, cultural programming, youth-focused […]
Paradise Lost: EDOFEST 2009 on the rescue…
The historic British Expedition of 1897, which led to the looting of more than 900 cultural artifacts from the palace of Oba Ovoranwem by the British invading forces was one military expedition that launched Benin, the capital of Edo State in world historical map.
Amazing Director of British Museum: A Gratuitous insult on cultural diplomacy…
It seems there is nobody in the whole of Great Britain who can persuade the Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, to refrain from making atrocious statements about cultural matters, especially about cultural objects of others which have been looted or removed under dubious circumstance and brought to the British Museum.
TBS’s journey to City Centre
IT is one thing to concession out a property, and it is another thing to develop and put to good used the concessioned property. It is on the recognition of this fact that one appreciates efforts of the management of BHS International, the successful bidder at the concession auctioning of Tafawa Balewa Square three years ago.
EDOFEST 2009: Akhere fine-tunes programme for cultural fiesta
THE Edo State Festival of Arts and Culture, EDOFEST 2009, billed for November is gradually coming on stream with the inauguration of the local organizing committee by the state commissioner for arts, culture and tourism, Barrister Vincent Akhere recently.
Miracle of the Storymoja Hay
When an individual or a group of individuals start to dream, they set loose some jawdropping miracles. I am speaking from experience for I have recently been witness to the miracle of the Storymoja Hay festival in Nairobi.
