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Professor Niyi Osundare

Why Poetry Matters

Ademola Adegbamigbe

3 years ago

 Professor Niyi Osundare writes that poetry is the soulmate of music, the sister of the song. It is Humanity’s long,…
I may apply for restoration of my Green Card - Soyinka

Why Soyinka is angry, seeks visa ban for perpetrators of violence

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Soyinka made this assertion on Tuesday 21 March 2023 at the World Poetry Day, organised by ProvidusBank in Lagos. The…
Shortlisted authors

2023 Booker Prize longlist announced: £50,000 for grab

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The shortlist of six books will be announced at London Book Fair on 18 April, with the winner announced at…
The longlist of the 2023 International Booker Prize montage

2023 International Booker Prize longlist announced: Some interesting features

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

According to French Moroccan novelist and chair of judges Leïla Slimani, the list, which was chosen from 134 books published…
Professor Niyi Osundare

Nigeria not reckoned with due to leadership failure – Osundare

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

With their personal reputation and accomplishments, Nigerians have continued to bring the country fame and glory at a time its…
Eagle Schnapps celebrate Lisabi day

Eagle Schnapps boosts support for culture, celebrates 36th Lisabi Festival 

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

Lisabi Festival is a major historic and cultural heritage event of the Egba people of Ogun State to celebrate the…

The Ethereal In Us — a photo exhibition by Olatoke Olufade — captures the essence of femininity

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Still photographs capture the essence and beauty of the moment, devoid of the noise and distraction of motion. The silent…
Six months after he was attacked in New York, Salman Rushdie shares photo showing scars to his face and a darkened lens in his glasses

Salman Rushdie shares photo of new look six months after brutal attack

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Rushdie himself released the photo via his Twitter handle on Tuesday 7 November in apparent reaction to the photo the…
Salman Rushdie speaks in a rare and rich interview with David Remnick, six months after his brutal attack onstage at an event in New York.

What Salman Rushdie said in first ‘public outing’ after brutal attack

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

According to the BBC, in the interview Salman Rushdie's voice sounded as it ever did - witty, fie

Scars Do Heal gets boost as UK based The Word sets date to feature Akínrópò, other writers

Isa Isawade

3 years ago

Among the five writers billed for the Feb. 25 event at the state-of-the-art cultural building is the author of an…
Jahman Anikukapo

From the street to stardom: The astonishing story of Jahman Anikulapo

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

Little wonder, Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, while paying tribute to his greatness and enigma, succinctly described him as a…
Popular Beauty and Wedding photographer, Abayomi Akinaina

I feel excited seeing my works on global platforms – Ace wedding photographer, Abayomi Akinaina

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Creative photographer, Abayomi Akinyemi Aina is a master when it comes to photography especially his unique way of infusing beauty…
Prince Yemisi Shyllon

How we shortchange ourselves in Nigeria – Yemisi Shyllon

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

By Nehru Odeh Omooba Yemisi Shyllon wears many hats. Aside from the fact that he is an engineer, he is…
Prince Harry, currently basking in the glow of his memoir, Spare, will not be welcomed at the coronation of his father as King Charles 111

Real reason Prince Harry will not be welcomed at his father’s coronation ceremony

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry left almost nothing unsaid about the royal family in the book, and spared no…

From Okeho Ahoro to Okeho Ile: A Review of The Okeho Exodus

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The schema headed by Baale Olele was possible because the citizens preferred the traditional lifestyle. The book gave the impression…

Akínrópò brings the World to Africa with ‘Scars Do Heal’

Isa Isawade

3 years ago

As a matter of fact, with Scars Do Heal, Akínrópò has effectively brought the rest of the world to Africa…
Professor Peju Layiwola(middle) with family and friends at the unveiling of her book, Indigo Reimagined in Lagos

The incredible work Prof. Peju Layiwola is doing with adire

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

The fantastic works she has done with adire inspired a book entitled Peju Layiwola's Indigo Reimagined: Rethinking Adire in Yoruba…
Mercy Eke first female winner of Big Brother Naija discusses accusations peddled against her in the media and life after the reality show

Mercy Eke: I was accused of involvement in money laundering

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Mercy Eke said the allegations that she was involved in money laundering was typical of the stigma successful women have…
Gregory Doran, artistic director emeritus, Royal Shakespeare Company explains veneration for English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.

Why I ‘worship’ Shakespeare – Gregory Doran

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Doran also said Shakespeare had not only been a sort of passport through his life, but also knew who he…
de arrest over allegation that he been raping 14- year- old daughter

The lady who was gangraped (For Vee and all victims of rape)

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

For Vee and all victims of rape
University of Lagos art historian Prof. Peju Layiwola speaks about adire, a fabric she has elevated into an art form and her other works

Adire not mere fabric, it means so much to us – Prof. Peju Layiwola

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

In 2019, Prof. Peju Layiwola organized a groundbreaking solo exhibition in Lagos, Nigeria, which lifted adire, a popular local fabric…
Nnedi Okorafor.

The astonishing story of how I became a writer – Nnedi Okorafor

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

There is something fascinating about award-winning Nigerian-American writer, Nnedi Okorafor. Not only does she write fantasy and science fiction and…
Deborah Samuel killed for blasphemy at Sokoto College of Education

The day we were silenced because of ‘God’

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

By Nehru Odeh (For Deborah Samuel) For she was a lone voice in a muffled world Seeking space to grow…
Aina on Iddo Island

LASRAB launches first Comic Book on Lagos History

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The comic book which is dedicated to all Lagosians, is written to help the present and future generations of Lagosians…
Veronique Tadjo

What keeps me going as a writer: Award-winning author Veronique Tadjo

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Veronique Tadjowho won the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction was in Lagos, Nigeria recently, where she headlined…
Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Why I left Zanzibar at 18, how it impacted my writing career – Gurnah, winner 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Asked why he left Zanzibar at 18, Gurnah said he had to leave because he found his country at the…
Professor Niyi Osundare

Poet of the People: Niyi Osundare

Ademola Adegbamigbe

3 years ago

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, a journalist, poet and public affairs analyst, writes that poets from all over the world today do…
Kalu Anya Ndukwe and Francis Madubuko

We plan to explore opportunities that await African creatives – Kalu and Francis

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Francis Madubuko and Kalu Anya Ndukwe, a talent-road manager and label services first connected at AFRIFF 2018,…
Musikilu Mojeed

Anyaoku, Kukah, Omogui Okauru, Falola praise Musikilu Mojeed’s ‘The Letterman’

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The Letterman, a 492-page, 25-chapter narrative non-fiction, curates some of the most significant and historical letters written and received by…
Death apparently has been on the trail of popular gospel artiste Sammie Okposo who slumped and died on Friday after suffering a heart attack. 

Sammie Okposo dies at 51: How he narrowly escaped death two years ago

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Okposo, who recently completed had a concert at the Logic Church located in Lagos and London renowned as one of…
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