Ayetoro, the Sinking Sanctuary
By Chris O. Okunnuwa Ayetoro began as a town of woodholding itself above the water,a sanctuary raised to catch twin-birthsbefore the oro cult could drown them. My father taught the alphabets there.Now the letters are underwater.A blackboard leans in brineDesks, driven out of their rows.A window opens onto fish. Twelve times, armed men came for […]
Catharsis: A depiction of current mental state of the nation
Nigerian contemporary artist, Tochukwu Orazulike, in collaboration with Victoria Ndubuisi, has made oil on canvas painting designed to induce an emotional release through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal, liberation from anxiety and mental slavery
Stimulating dialogue around Prof Ogundiran’s new Yoruba history
The widely acclaimed seminal documentation of what the author, Prof Akinwunmi Ogundiran, tagged a new history of one of the three major tribes in Nigeria- the Yoruba, has been eliciting conversations especially as it relates to the exact origin of the people
Igbo heritage: Chukwudum Okeke launches ‘Embers of Tradition’
By Prisca Sam-Duru “Embers of Tradition”, the debut novel of Chukwudum Okeke was on Wednesday May 19, 2021, launched to a global audience on a digital space. The 318-page attention-arresting book that reminiscences “Things Fall Apart”, by late literary legend, Professor Chinualumogu Achebe, is structured around some of the old traditions of the Igbo people […]
Book Review: Lost Truth by Patrick Ofili
By Chinelo A. Iwenofu Patrick Ofili has defied the norms of the strict scientific reasoning which is usually accredited to his profession as a medical doctor, by straying into the world of the spiritual and the African supernatural. In his second published work, Lost Truth, he has managed to let his creative writing skills drift […]
New milestone in automobile art @ Signature Gallery
By Osa Amadi Organised by Signature Beyond Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos, each of the two exhibitions comes with a distinct feature within different genres. Ogbeyemi’s exhibition of welded-metal titled Ark Meta-Art and Ibiok’s paintings-themed Talkless Talk is showing from May 22-June 12, 2021, at Signature Beyond Gallery. “This should not be mistaken for two-artist exhibition,” curator […]
Need for contemporary artists to study history
Art, expression, has played a significant role in the history of the tribes and cultures that make up modern-day Nigeria. Post-colonial Nigerian art has evolved significantly in the 61 years since Nigeria’s independence, so much so that we might argue for the art industry as the most evolved aspect of ‘Nigeria’
An epitaph for Pastor Eugene Elema Ekeh
My fondest memory of Dede Eugene (that’s what I always called him) goes back to my primary school days or so, when a sendoff party was organised for him in Umunakara Imerienwe, after he got admission to study at the University of Lagos. He was one of the very few youths of our community who had followed my father’s footsteps in the pursuit of university education
Review of Otunba Runsewe’s performance in arts & culture
The joy of hard work, someone said recently, is more work. For the second time, Otunba Segun Runsewe (OON), famously known as ‘Mr. Tourism’ and the ‘Face of Nigerian Culture’ has been re-appointed as Director-General of National Council for Arts and Culture, NCAC, under the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture
SNA: Building artists’ colonies in Lagos
After what looked like months of redundancy due largely to the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the art community, the Society of Nigeria Artists, SNA, Lagos State Chapter is back and fully loaded for a fresh star
ScAN, public art, and Nigeria’s cityscape
The professional body of registered sculptors in Nigeria – Sculptors Association of Nigeria, ScAN, performed the inauguration of her Board of Trustees on April 16 and held its National Conference on April 21-22, 2021. Both events were conducted on dual platforms of physical and online participation
