As part of its 24th edition in 2022, the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) will be headlined by legendary artist Bruce Onobrakpeya, who is 90 this year. Set to run from the 14th to the 20th of November 2022…
Venerable artist Dr Bruce Onobrakpeya at 90 — Délé Jẹ́gẹde
When I turned 70 in 2015, there was quite a sizeable coterie of friends, colleagues, and elders who gathered at the campuses of the University of Lagos and the Yaba College of Technology to felicitate with me. The three-day event…
CORA dedicates 2022 Programme Season to Bruce Onobrakpeya@90
Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), has dedicated it’s 2022 programming season to celebrating the exemplary life and illustrious career of the grand patriarch of Nigeria’s visual arts, Dr Bruce Onobrakpeya, as he clocks the nonagenarian age in August. The prime…
The Didi Museum journey to mastery – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Legendary institutions almost always start from very trivial incidents. As a child, Newton Jibunoh had a much adored younger sister named Edith. In his stammering, the young Newton could not get to grips with pronouncing the name Edith. What always…