The Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF) is set to captivate art enthusiasts with an unprecedented visual arts extravaganza as the fiesta celebrates its 25th anniversary. Running from November 13 to 19, the festival will feature six exhibition projects, marking…
CORA’s BookTrek 8.0 dives into “No Good Deed” on October 18
The next book on the line for discussion at CORA’s periodic BookTrek is No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Contentious Search for Peace in The Niger Delta. The event takes place at 4 pm on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at…
Soyinka headlines Naija Times’ grand anniversary event
In a resplendent celebration of its third anniversary, Naija Times, a rising star in the world of independent online journalism, has secured the distinguished presence of Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka. The event, scheduled for October 19, 2023, will take…
Soyinka dares accusers to prove claims as controversial allegations resurface
A controversial document from the past has reemerged, raising serious allegations against renowned Nigerian playwright and author, Wole Soyinka. The document, originally encountered during General Sani Abacha’s tumultuous reign, has been modified to fit the digital age and is now…
Soyinka highlights significance of honouring practitioners of artistic creativity
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said there were certain principles, histories, rights, and responsibilities of artistic creativity that should not be smothered under emotional manipulation. While reacting to the controversy over a video by the artiste Davido, he also…
Soyinka unveils latest Interventions volume, “The Putin Files”
Professor Wole Soyinka’s latest Interventions volume, The Putin Files: Excursions Around the Ideology of Pain is ready for presentation to the general public. According to the publishers of the series, Bookcraft Africa, The Putin Files will be formally unveiled on…
There was nothing to reconcile between Peter Obi and I – Wole Soyinka
Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has termed as inappropriate and diversionary media reports that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25, 2023 poll, Peter Obi’s visit to his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence on Sunday was for…
8 poets from 5 countries mark World Poetry Day with Wole Soyinka
As has become a tradition since 2019, Providus Bank will be staging its 3rdProvidusBank Poetry Café on Tuesday, March 21 at the Grand Ballroom Eko Hotel & Suites Victoria Island, Lagos. Titled World Poetry Day with Wole Soyinka, the event…
Global conquest of Nigerian literature
I can never get tired of celebrating Nigerian literature, arguably Nigeria’s greatest gift to the world. The politics of Nigeria is a disaster that makes the whole wide world laugh at the so-called “Giant of Africa”. Aside from creative literature,…
The evolving poetics of the Jagaban of Borgu — Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Aspects of Nigeria have been compared to a dancing mask. No less so, its political leadership and followership. Like one overzealous pundit aptly put it, the story of our nation’s power play is always in an unravelling mode. In fact,…
