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 […]
Twenty-eight masters exhibit works on Queen Moremi
Books, plays and musicals have been written for Queen Moremi Ajasoro, the historical Ife heroin who sacrificed all she had to save her people. Now, Alexis Galleries and the House of Oduduwa have partnered 28 Masters to capture the same story in visual arts.
Runsewe commends CBN Governor for Creative Industry Financing Initiative
The Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, has commended the Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emiefele, for developing a Creative Industry Financing Initiative.
‘White Ebony’ exhibition changing the narrative on albinos
In a bid to help change the existing narrative on albinism, social activist photographer, Yetunde Ayeni-Babaeko’s ‘White Ebony’, an exhibition featuring twenty-one thought provoking photographs opened to the public on May 25, 2019 at Temple Muse, Lagos.
Nigeria, a lie to maximise British returns
If truly Nigeria has been a lie in her over 100 years of existence, what then is the essence of the nine chapters piece of work that cascades the reader from the introduction to “Nigeria at a crossroad: the beginning; through the truth of the matter, the lie and the corollary”?
Indian Arts Foundation, Sanskruti holds first classical music concert in Nigeria
When in a foreign land, one’s traditional music is one of the ways of keeping in touch with the culture and beliefs of your homeland. For that reason, the Fusion Sanskruti Arts Foundation, FSAS, an Indian arts foundation in Lagos, Nigeria conducted its first Indian classical music concert at the MUSON Centre recently. A musical group called Sakhi, which means ‘friends who are girls’ in India, was invited to perform.
