From Wednesday, October 10 through the 12th, the ‘Ijegba Amphitheatre’ ensconced in the forested area of Ibara Housing Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State, will be animated with a new residency programme that is capable of shooting up its profile as a…
Tunde Kelani’s Sidi Ilujinle: choosing artistic fidelity over artistic licence -Dami Ajayi
Tunde Kelani, arguably Nigeria’s greatest auteur, recently ticked off an item from his bucket list: he adapted a Wole Soyinka play into film. Known for his culturally rich and thematically expansive films, a huge chunk of Kelani’s oeuvre are adaptations…
The Road-Map of a Nation: Twenty years on! –Wole Soyinka
Following an increasingly commonplace epic journey between Lagos and Abeokuta this last weekend – 5hrs 10 minutes outwards (Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Saturday September 15) and 4hrs 25 minutes return journey the following day via Otta – I feel compelled to offer…
Greg Mbajiorgu presents a golden jubilee book to former President Jonathan – Norbert Oyibo Eze
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is, undoubtedly, a passionate lover and patron of the art. Even when he was the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, state craft never constrained him to relegate the artists to the background. He had a…
Don’t crucify Ortom for leaving APC, says Soyinka (Punch)
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said on Thursday that no power or force should crucify Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, for returning to the Peoples Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress. Soyinka, while clarifying that he was not campaigning…
University of Ibadan names theatre after Wole Soyinka
The Council and Senate of the University of Ibadan have decided to rename the Arts Theatre of the University after Professor Wole Soyinka. A statement released by Dr. Tunde Awosanmi of the Department of Theatre Arts of the university…
Macron’s visit a good omen -Obi
The former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has commended the visit of the French President Emmanuel Macron to Nigeria, describing it as “a positive development”. Obi spoke as part of the dignitaries that received the French President at Fela’s…
9th WSICE84 turns searchlight on the pursuit of truth
The ninth edition of Open Door Series ProjectWS, the annual Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange Project (WSICE84) will take place from July 12 -15 in Abeokuta, Ogun State under the theme: “The Pursuit of Truth (Truth and the National Psyche)”,…