The Arts

I’m curating connections through storytelling, culture, creative experiences – GbolaJesu Amusa

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 […]
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Contemporary Nigerian poetry and garbage poetics

Contemporary Nigerian poetry and garbage poetics

BY EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE POETRY is said to be a method  of expression that thrives on   spontaneity of powerful emotions that are given distinct artistic colour and flavour through the use of appropriate literary devices and diction. By practical extension of this perception,  poetry should be characterised by grace and beauty of language through the use […]

Soyinka on DSTV’s Great Africans

Soyinka on DSTV’s Great Africans

In the last few weeks, the serial documentary has focussed on such African legends as Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and Wangari Maathai the environmental rights crusader and Nobel Peace Prize winner from Kenya. Soyinka is the only writer so far featured.