The Arts

With ‘Nsi: After the Harvest’ we tend to examine how histories and labour shape our land – Azu Nwagbogu

With ‘Nsi: After the Harvest’ we tend to examine how histories and labour shape our land – Azu Nwagbogu

…as AAF, CATPC intercultural exhibition and symposium holds in Lagos African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), a Nigerian based art institution supporting contemporary art, design and culture, in collaboration with Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), from the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC), will hold an art exhibition and symposium titled: “Nsi: After the Harvest,” […]
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Ambush: Adeoti’s satire of Nigeria’s giant of Africa title

Ambush: Adeoti’s satire of Nigeria’s giant of Africa title

Prolific poet, social commentator and professor of English Language at the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Gbemisola Adeoti, paints a picture of a country besieged by a rampaging Grim Reaper in his poem, “Ambush”

Birago Diop: Why the gods are silent to our cries

Birago Diop: Why the gods are silent to our cries

By Chukwuma Ajakah Ever wondered why evil increases in the land and the gods chose to be unconcerned? In his famous poem, “Vanity”, Birago Diop explores the view that the ancestral gods chose to be silent to the cries of most Africans because they had failed to listen to earlier warnings meant to guide them […]