Arts

Two Lagos-based journalists and fiction writers – Anote Ajeluorou of The Guardian and Henry Akubuiro of The Sun — will be lead discussants in a creative writing masterclass to be held at the Department...

Plans have reached conclusive stages for the maiden Aspire Music Festival.

Nigerian artist and talent manager, Bankulli Osha has revealed details of his work with Beyoncé on ‘Lion King: The Gift’.

Unions Without Unionism, Governments Without Governance: Essays In Honour Of Professor Funminiyi Oladele Adewumi; Edited by Owei Lakemfa & Ahmed Aminu Yusuf; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Abuja, Nigeria; 2018; 306pp Professor Funmi Adewumi (1960-2017) died so painfully at the height of his powers.

When Christopher Adeyemi, a University of Ibadan graduate moved to South Africa, in 1996, in search of greener pastures, there were less than a thousand Nigerian immigrants in that country.

Believe the hype and last weekend’s African Fashion Week London - its ninth - was a rounded success.

Plans are afoot to mark iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival’s 10th anniversary in 2020. The anniversary edition, scheduled to hold from March 19 to 22, in Lagos, will be a celebration of the achievements of the film fest and an appraisal of its direction in the future. Before its emergence, there had been a paucity of festivals devoted to documentary films in Nigeria.

For Chinua Achebe, the standard fare is that he was not autobiographical in his novels. But is it? Whatever, the scandal is not that Achebe was actually autobiographical in writing Things Fall Apart, the scandal is that Achebe’s readers, scholars, and researchers, have missed out on this largely self-evident fact for sixty-odd years.

2019 has really been a tough one for the arts community. From Bisi Silva to Okwui Enwezor, Pius Adesanmi to Eddie Ugbomah and Prof. Molara Ogundipe, Dr. Stella Oyedepo to David Dale, Jide Ogungbade to Frank Okonta and Idowu Nubi, the number of artists who have passed on in the year,

Recently, Frank Edwards, Rev. Fr. Lawrence Adelana (a.k.a. Fada Fuji), Sr. Lucy, Kellar Thrillz, Clenz and a host of gospel artistes lit Magodo, Lagos, with praise, dance and comedy.

In September 2009, Nigerian artistes of different shades embarked on a weeklong hunger strike. The action, which was a result of the frustration caused by the devastating level of intellectual property theft in the country, was a prelude to what has become today, No Music Day in Nigeria.

After years of research and experimentation, former Head, Department of Painting, School of Art and Industrial Design, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Mr. Kent Onah, is set to unveil a book on how art...