…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…
Lagos Book & Art Festival announces date, dedicates edition David Herbert Dale
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), which organises the yearly Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF) has announced the final phase of preparation for the 2019 edition, saying it will take place from November 4-10 at the official home of…
Ajeluorou, author of ‘Igho Goes to Farm’ makes case for Ase Creek as tourism destination
…Urges Okowa to develop tourist sites in Delta State …Says river comparable to Thames, Rhine, Danube in Europe Author of increasingly popular children’s storybook Igho Goes to Farm and editor with The Guardian, Mr. Anote Ajeluorou, has canvassed the need…
CORA Book Party for Nigeria Prize finalists holds Sunday
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) will on Sunday at the Muson Centre in Lagos host the longlisted authors in this year’s Nigeria Prize for Literature to its annual Book Party. A CORA statement by its Programme Chair, Jahman Anikulapo,…
6th CORA Book Trek hosts Dele Farotimi to a reading
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) will on Saturday, July 20 feature the author Dele Farotimi at its Sixth Book Trek in 2019. Farotimi will be reading from his book, Do Not Die in Their War at the monthly event,…
Lola Akande reads at 4th CORA BookTrek on Saturday
Lola Akande will be reading from her novel, Where Are You From? during the fourth edition of BookTrek in 2019 organised by the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA). Venue is Quintessence Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos on Saturday, June 15, 2019. CORA…
CORA holds BookTrek featuring Ego-Alowes
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) will be holding the second edition of its 2019 monthly BookTrek. The organisers said in a statement that the event, which is in conjunction with Quintessence and will take place at the art gallery/bookshop/literary…
CORA, NPL book party holds August 25
The annual book party in honour of those who make the longlist of the prestigious $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL) holds on Saturday, August 25 at Terra Kulture Arena, Victoria Island, Lagos. Organised by the Committee for Relevant Art…