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L-R - Akshay Jain, Dare Art Alade, Kafayat Kaffy Shafau and Professor Pat Utomi

‘Vibrant Africa: The Rising Rhythm’ – Culture Festival 2022 to hold August 19-21 in Lagos

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Art of Living Foundation is the world's largest educational and humanitarian organisation, with the single motive to create a stress-free…
Davido and Portable

Davido/Portable: The limits of influencer marketing

Ademola Adegbamigbe

4 years ago

Akin Olaniyan writes that the comments he had read question the morality of popular musicians throwing their star power behind…
 Jimi Solanke

 Jimi Solanke at 80, ” Our Evergreen Folk Master”

Ademola Adegbamigbe

4 years ago

Born July 4, 1942, Olujimi Solanke, a native of Ipara Remo, the Baba Agba, African culture ambassador extraordinaire, trained at…
Legendary singer, late Bob Marley

Bob Marley’s Ride Natty Ride

Ademola Adegbamigbe

4 years ago

By the time we were settling down to getting the full blast of heat from his red hot, scorching fame…

A daughter’s search for her father, how a country found its missing pages

Ademola Adegbamigbe

4 years ago

When Nigerien filmmaker, Amina Mamani, lost her father Mamani Abdoulaye, novelist, writer, poet, activist and politician in a rather extenuating…
Osayomore Joseph

Famous highlife musician Osayomore Joseph is dead

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Osayomore Joseph was an electric highlife musician whose music ruled the air waves in the late 1980s, 90s and the…
George Lamming, renowned Barbadian novelist, poet, essayist and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, In the Castle of My Skin: dies at 94

Bestselling writer George Lamming dies at 94

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

By Nehru Odeh George Lamming, renowned Barbadian novelist, poet, essayist and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, In the Castle of…
Trish Lorenz, British Journalist and author of the book, “Soro Soke: The Young Disruptors Of An African MegaCity”

#EndSARS: How Nigerians forced British author to retract claim on ‘Soro Soke’

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Soro Soke' is a phrase of Yoruba origin meaning 'speak out' or 'speak louder.' And it gained prominence, becoming a…

Silent Journeys and Cultural Memory: A detailed review of ‘ Òde Àpẹ̀rìn ‘ by Shogo Olalekan Uthman

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Olu Ajayi is an artist and art reviewer with over 40 years experience in studio practice and art administration. He…
Okey Ndibe reading an excerpt from Arrows of Rain

Deborah: Atiku lost a great opportunity – Okey Ndibe

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Deborah was lynched and burnt by Muslim fanatics who had accused her of blasphemy on Thursday 12 May, 2022.
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

Arrow of God, others chosen for The Big Jubilee Read

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

The Big Jubilee Read spearheaded by BBC Arts and The Reading Agency celebrates great reads from across the Commonwealth, to…
Montage for the Earl Lovelace Short Fiction Prize

Short fiction prize in honour of Earl Lovelace debuts

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Entries for the Earl Lovelace Short Fiction Prize will open on 11th, April, 2022.
Chimamanda Adichie

Chimamanda to release new book

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Chimamanda wrote Mama’s Sleeping Scarf for her daughter, who was three years old at the time. The story, energetic and…
Idunma and other winners of 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize

Nigerian writer Iduma among winners of 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Other winners of 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize include Pulitzer prize-winning Margo Jefferson, the trailblazing playwright Winsome Pinnock, and PEN Pinter prize-winning…
Obari Gomba wins 2023 Nigeria Prize for Literature, carts home $100,000

Obari Gomba wins 2022 PAWA Poetry Prize

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Gomba was announced as the winner after beating other five shortlisted Nigerians in a virtual ceremony on 3 March 2022.
The cast of Fix Politics

‘Fix Politics’ movie challenges Nigerians on 2023 election

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

By Nehru Odeh When popular spoken word and performance artist Dike Chukwumerije published his poem, Fix the Politics, in 2020,…
Award-winning Nigerian writer Onyeka Nwelue

How Soyinka influenced my writing career – Onyeka Nwelue

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Onyeka Nwelue, currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford instituted the annual James Currey Prize for the best-unpublished…
Linda Enakeme Ofukeme Dominguez: The Voyage of a Change Agent

Linda Enakeme Ofukeme Dominguez: The Voyage of a Change Agent

Taiwo Okanlawon

4 years ago

By Preye Campbell Linda Enakeme Ofukeme Dominguez, (also known as Naijalife or Senora K) was born in November 1981 in…

1957: How Nnamdi Azikiwe Helped Sidney Poitier in Enugu

Ademola Adegbamigbe

4 years ago

Sidney Poitier, the Black Hollywood legend who died on Thursday 6 January 2022  visited Enugu in 1957 for a movie,…
Sidney Poitier

The amazing life of Sidney Poitier, the first black Hollywood star

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

The youngest of seven children, Sidney Poitier was born several months premature on 20 February 1927. He was so tiny…
Mrs Uzamat Akinbule-Yusuf, Lagos Commissioner of Tourism, Arts and Culture, alongside the Permanent Secretary, Princess Adenike Adedoyin-Ajayi and Director of Theatre, Mr Odusote handing over the management of the Glover hall to Joke Silva of Lufodo Group

Lufodo Group takes over management of Glover Memorial Hall

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Lufodo Group takes over the management of Glover Memorial Hall after winning the bid for the concession of the iconic…
Benin artefacts

Over 1,500 Nigerian artefacts will be retrieved in 2022 – DG NCMM

Muhamin Olowoporoku

4 years ago

The largest number to be retrieved in 2022 will be from Germany where 1,030 Nigerian artefacts are expected to be…
American best selling writer, Joan Didion

How American writer Joan Didion wrote bestseller at 70 after losing husband

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Joan Didion was a writer who turned adversity into prosperity, who turned misfortune into fortune. She sure, as they say,…
Olalekan Kelani unveils innovative approach to virtual art

Olalekan Kelani unveils innovative approach to virtual art at 2021 End of the Year Virtual Exhibition

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

By Benson Michael The End of the Year Virtual Exhibition, held from August 16 to August 30, 2021, was a…
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o writes an open letter to President William Ruto

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o not dead -Son

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

“Just got off the phone with pops @NgugiWaThingo … and he is doing well. We shared a good laugh about…
International Human Rights Art Festival Organizers shortlist nine top entries for International Human Rights Playwriting Competition

Shortlist for African Human Rights Playwriting Prize announced

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

The competition is aimed at elevating public consciousness and understanding of human rights values through plays in order to guarantee…
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, Professor of Law, Babcock University: wins 2021 NNLG Nigeria Prize for Literature for her novel, The Son of the House.

Why Onyemelukwe won $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Onyemelukwe’s novel beats The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare and Colours of Hatred by Obinna Udenwe to…
(Front): Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (4th right); his wife, Mrs. Betsy (3rd right); Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu (middle); widow of Sir Victor Uwaifo; Mrs. Osaretin Uwaifo; (4th left), with other members of Uwaifo’s family, at the lying-in state for late Uwaifo, in Benin City, on Friday, October 15, 2021.

Obaseki names Edo Creative Hub after Victor Uwaifo

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Obaseki noted that the hub will “promote creativity in Edo.
Yusuf Adebayo Grillo veteran artist who died at 86

Veteran artist Yusuf Grillo died of COVID-19, son reveals

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

The younger Grillo revealed this to the Society of Nigerian Artists, which issued a tribute in Grillo's honour.
Soyinka attending PEN America Gala for Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Soyinka billed for PEN America event to honour Louis Gates Jr.

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka will be attending the 5 October PEN America literary gala, to present an award to…
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