The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) has unveiled the theme for the 27th Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF) as “CHANGE: Imagining Alternatives,” marking a symbolic connection between the past and the future. The announcement came during the closing ceremonies…
CORA celebrates Wole Soyinka at 90 with month-long festivities in Lagos
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) is honouring the 90th birthday of Wole Soyinka, a titan of African literature, with a series of weekly readings, exhibitions, and film screenings throughout July 2024 at Freedom Park in Lagos. This celebration, dubbed…
Providus Bank hosts World Poetry Day in honour of Wole Soyinka @ 90
With World Poetry Day on March 21st, Providus Bank is once again taking the lead in promoting the art of poetry with its annual “Providus Bank Poetry Café” event. Held as part of the bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme,…
What kind of leader are you? — Ehi Braimah
Last week, families, friends, associates and well-wishers gathered at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, to celebrate the third anniversary of Naija Times, our online newspaper, which I founded in 2020. It was a great opportunity to reconnect with professional colleagues who…
There is only one Onyeka Nwelue — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It is in my constitution to celebrate Onyeka Nwelue, no matter whatever anybody reads elsewhere. The much-ballyhooed news out of Oxford or Cambridge on Onyeka Nwelue should be better understood in a better context with the passage of Father Time. …
Goethe-Institut Nigeria hosts “Who’s Who in the Yoruba Pantheon” reading Feb 16
Goethe-Institut Nigeria and the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies will host a reading and panel discussion on the book Who’s Who in the Yoruba Pantheon. According to Goethe-Institut, the event, which will feature panellists including the book’s authors Jahman…
Freedom Vibes Series launches in Lagos – Dafieta Ighohwo
The executive producer, Unchained Vibes Africa, Ayodele Ganiu, has described art censorship regulations as excuses to stop artistes’ activism. This is according to a statement Saturday, 30th October 2021, at the official launch of the Freedom Vibes Series by Unchained…
The rage of Mbize erosion in southeast Nigeria – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Mbize: Rage of Red Earth (Stories, Songs on Landslide, Erosion in Igboland) by Chuka Nnabuife; Heinrich Boll Stiftung; 2011 The erosion menace in southeast Nigeria is a twice-told story. Whole villages have been sacked, and many houses are teetering on…
Yoruba gods come alive in new book “Who’s Who in the Yoruba Pantheon”
A new book, “Who’s Who in the Yoruba Pantheon”, written by Peju Akande, Jahman Anikulapo and Toni Kan with illustrations by Abdulkareem Baba Aminu has hit the shelves. The book captures, celebrates and hopes to re-appropriate the Yoruba Orisas who have been…
Naija Times launches Diaspora Conversations
The maiden edition of the Naija Times Diaspora Conversations will hold on Saturday April 17, 2021 with refreshing insights into the challenging security situation in Nigeria. According to a statement by Naija Times’ Editorial Director, Jahman Anikulapo,the theme of the…