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Funke’s Memories of Grandma in print

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MULTIPLE award winning broadcast journalist and one of Radio Nigeria’s foremost Network Newscasters, Funke Treasure Durodola, shares her unique experience as a traveller child in Western Nigeria of the 1980’s.

In Memories of Grandma, her...

Donna Diva goes Gaga

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Donna-3DONNA AJa, otherwise known as Donna Diva, is not new in the Nigerian music scene. However, her first single, shut up, made little impact majorly due to low publicity. Though the song got pass mark from some critics, who saw it as different from...

Darey’s Asiko tops chart

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GOBE crooner, Davido joins Ehis in the studio for this week’s Official Naija Top 10, discussing the music videos and tracks making it big on this week’s Nigerian music scene.

Weighing in first place this week is Asiko by Darey, featuring Ice...

Ademola goes to White House with Adeda

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WHITE House Hotel and Suite, Ikeja, Lagos will play host to notable names in Nollywood on Sunday, as movie buffs gather for the première of much talked about movie, Adeda by Princess Allwell Ademola.

The actress cum producer, Allwell is not...

Joy of Jazz... loud in Jo’burg

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Eddie_DanielsAHEAD of the annual Standard Bank Joy of Jazz concert billed to open on August 22, organisers of the jazz gig have unveiled South African jazz great Abdullah Ibrahim, to join Grammy award- winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard and celebrated pianist...

‘How imaginative thinking spurs good story’

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TCHIDIIN his lecture recently at Redeemers University entitled ‘What is Right and what is Wrong with Nollywood’, erudite scholar of comparative literature at Harvard University, United States, Prof. Biodun Jeyifo, gave useful insight into how...

With UNITE , American scholar taps the arts for youth development

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American-scholar-UNITE-3_copyIN four months, Fulbright, U.S. scholar, Erica Licht-led You and I Teach Each Other (UNITE) initiative engaged youths across Lagos, via diverse creative activities with the aim of promoting justice and non-violence approach to conflict...

From the Diaspora, Da Silva’s abstraction in headlong home dive

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Da-Silvas-abstraction-1WHEN Lucerne, Switzerland-based artist, Raoul Olawale Da Silva’s solo art exhibition titled Inner Worlds, Outer Space opens at The Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos on Sunday, June 9, 2013, abstract in its unambiguous tone will return to the Lagos...

Oghagbon’s canvas brings Argungu, Emir to Lagos

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FROM his past projects, Moses Aboigbodin Oghagbon shared the beauty of Northern Nigeria in a show titled Argungu Series 1, held at Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Inspired by his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) period project tagged...

Creative kids fight malaria with art

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FOR using their talents in the fight against malaria, via arts competition, 12 young artists were recognized during an art competition “Creative kids against Malaria”, which took place Victoria Island Secondary School (Kuramo Senior...

Rifts from the phoenix in Shadrach and Other Poems

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“The elders of time are gathered tonight  Round Eternity’s fire burning bright

Rallied together to know your score

Child don’t panic, we’ve seen you before”

 

THE 21st century began, it appears for African literature, with...

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