Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
By Prisca Sam-Duru STOCKHOLM — Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson, 76, was honoured “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,” the Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The prize was announced […]
Agbonlahor’s book exposes how negative cultures retard progress
Martins Agbonlahor’s latest publication, “Another Poor Cow”, published by Amazon Fulfillment in 2020, shows the author’s maturity and grip of his subject matter. The 193-page publication’s central theme is the negative impact of the cultural practices of Nigerian people as seen through the eye of a particular rural community. Besides the central theme, Agbonlahor periscopes […]
A colourful day with the Gbong Gwom Jos
By Osa Amadi After we finished lunch with Otunba Runsewe at the Old Government House, he went into an inner room and emerged wearing a stunning attire. “Otunba, this is the costume of warriors!” I exclaimed. “Yes, you’re right,” he said, brushing past us with the long spear in his right hand as if he […]
Collectors’ Experience @ ART X Lagos 2020
By Osa Amadi The 2020 edition of ART X Lagos, West Africa’s Premier International Art Fair, began online at ARTXLAGOS.COM on Tuesday, December 2, and will run till December 9, 2020. According to the organizers, the virtual presentation will include 200 works from Africa and the Diaspora’s leading galleries, as well as innovative programming through […]
My greatest joy is being listed in Forbes 2020 — Eni
By Prisca Sam-Duru Emmanuel Eni, popularly called “Blackman in European Kitchen”, is a German-based Nigerian painter, sculptor, multimedia performance artist, poet and philosopher, who has just been listed in Forbes 2020. Having attended so many institutions including London’s Royal Academy of Art, the gifted artist describes his experience being in various universities reading art as, […]
Nature deliberately planned Jos for tourism — John Best, renowned tourism guide
By Osa Amadi The Plateau State Tourism Development Board describes Assop Water Falls as an ‘area of Guinea Savanah on the slopes and top of a mid-attitude ridge of the Jos Plateau beside the Jos-Kagoro Road, about 70 km from Jos. The Assop River, it says, which feeds the picturesque rapids and falls, drains part […]
