Arts

Art Historical Association of Nigeria (AHAN), in association with Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka is organising a conference on art history. With ‘The harvest is plenty, but the labourers are few: Art Historians in Nigeria and the Challenges of Historiography’ as theme, the event holds from today (July 18) to…

Recently, Ogidi community in Kogi State was agog in festivities, as the village hosted this year’s New Yam Festival. Held amidst drama, spectacle and fanfare, it was an event that many wouldn’t forget in a hurry. The weeklong event is celebrated yearly with cultural performances, presentation of new yam, chieftaincy investitures and awards. Other activities…

Less than three months to the ‘scheduled’ Rivers State hosting of National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST), no date has been fixed for the cultural fiesta. The Guardian gathered that the Chief Executives of Culture of the Federation (CEC) meeting, which should have preceded the festival, has not held. It was also gathered that…

When it comes to revolution and the arts, there has been no other in Nigeria like Fela Kuti. His persona and music addressed the state of the nation making powerful people uncomfortable – leading to threats, raids, arrests and even the death of his mother at the hands of the men sent by the state.…

Eminent scholar-poet and University of Benin (UIBEN) don, Professor Tony Afejuku, has delivered a lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on America, Their America, a 1964 American charming travel narrative by a foremost Nigerian and African poet, playwright and dramatist, the very distinguished Professor John P. Clark. The occasion was the 42nd international gathering…

Exhibition of loaned controversial cultural objects, particularly, looted Benin artefacts, is not new. Some foreign museum holders of these artefacts, in the past, had collaborated...

The first Prof. John Pepper Clark International Conference will hold from today, July 11, through 14, 2018 at University of Lagos, Nigeria. It has as theme ‘Connecting the Local and Global Across Literary Genres.’

When talking about the yearly Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange Project, WSICE, perhaps, it makes sense to remember the first edition in 2010. The image of 76 actors...

Published in 2016 by Pen Print Solution Ventures, Lagos, Nigeria, Inside Nigerian Banks written by journalist, writer and editor, Nik Ogbulie, gives a rich analysis and firsthand...

Art X Lagos, in conjunction with Access Bank, has named Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola as the winner of the 2018 edition of the ‘ART X Prize with Access’, instituted to recognise and support the best of emerging Nigerian visual art talent. 

All is set for the hosting of the African Music Festival and Cultural Expo ‘AMFEST Expo, Lagos 2018’. This yearly event is a networking platform catering to the culture, arts and entertainment ecosystems on the African continent.

When Adaighofua Omofue Salami was to be born, he made a remarkable choice at urhoro (the threshold of life) where he picked the gourd of songs and drank it dry. For the nine months that the journey from erivwin (abode of the dead and unborn) to akpo (life) took, Uhangwha....