CORA Library & Resource Centre at Freedom Park for inauguration January 14

The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) is set to inaugurate its much-anticipated CORA Library & Resource Centre at Freedom Park, Lagos Island.  The event, scheduled for Sunday, January 14, 2024, at 4 pm, marks the beginning of CORA’s 2024 culture…

CORA Library & Resource Centre set to usher in new era in Lagos Literary Landscape

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF), the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) will unveil its latest endeavour, the CORA Library & Resource Centre (L&RC), during a sneak peek event held at CORAVille…

CORA and Nigeria LNG organise book party to honour Nigeria Prize for Literature finalists

The city’s literary scene came alive as the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) in conjunction with Nigeria LNG Ltd. hosted a grand book party honouring the longlisted authors of the Nigeria Prize for Literature. The event marked the 14th edition…

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…

Osundare in Lagos for “GREEN: Sighs of Our Ailing Planet,” reading

The new collection of poetry by Nigeria’s preeminent poet laureate, Professor Niyi Osundare, GREEN: Sighs of Our Ailing Planet, will feature in a Reading/Signing session on February 20, 2022. Jointly organised by the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) and Roving…

CORA, NLNG stages book party for writers shortlisted in $100k Nigeria Prize for Literature

The eleven novelists shortlisted for the 2021 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL), will be on parade on Sunday August 8 at the Eko Hotel & Suites, VI, Lagos as the 12th CORA-NPL Book Party holds.  The Committee for Relevant Art…

CORA fetes Nigeria Prize for Literature winners at 2020 Book Party

The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) in collaboration with the Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), is set to celebrate winners of the prize through the years in a special edition of the annual CORA-NPL…

LABAF 2020: CORA announces 22nd Lagos Book and Art Festival

…theme is “A State of Flux: Literacy in a Period of Languor.” …to run from November 9 to 15, 2020. The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) has announced the date for this year’s edition of the Lagos Book and Art…

CORA BookTrek to host Segun Osoba on Zoomdom

The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) will on Wednesday, September 9, feature Segun Osoba, journalist, editor, author, APC chieftain and former governor of Ogun State at its BookTrek event. Osoba will be reading from his autobiographyBattlelines: Adventures in Journalism and…

Wanted Sharp-Sharp: A wife to lock down Alfred Akinosho @ 60 – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

A wife locks down a man more than corona. That is one lesson I learnt from the COVID-19 lockdown. You can quote me on that. There is this crazy character in the culture circuit whose real name is Alfred Akinosho…

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