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Agboola: Nike’s protege in Adire making

Agboola: Nike’s protege in Adire making

Oladapo David Agboola is one textile artist who has honed his skills to design and create unique textile abstractions, using African motifs, traditional patterns, intricate geometrical design, and Batik painting.

Soyinka and the Nifty Steps students

Soyinka and the Nifty Steps students

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka may have lost the stomping strides captured in the 1970 Ossie Davis-directed film, Kongi’s Harvest, where he stars as an African dictator, but he has remained nimble for a man of 89. One can almost see through the thinning white crown of hair as he enters the hall at Freedom Park, Lagos, to engage the literature students of Nifty Steps College, Ikorodu, Lagos.