The Arts

NPL: How three authors turned pain, history and faith into poetry 

By Prisca Sam-Duru The 2026 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature nears its climax parading three poets, three different obsessions, but one common urgency — to hold a mirror to Nigeria. James Ngwu Eze writes against fear and silence. Tares Oburumu interrogates the colonial name we still bear. Ogaga Ifowodo asks a disturbingly simple […]
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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’

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