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At Mapoly, art glories in its cadences
BY ONAOLATOMIRIN FALADE Art is a language. Only those who speak it can understand the variances of the cadence of the language. Irrespective of this, the beauty in the language becomes ever visible...
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Helen O’Grady Drama Academy hones talents in Nigeria
BY ONAOLATOMIRIN FALADE A child without education is like a bird without wings. No matter how much that child tries or believe he/ she will not fly, only walk. Success in later life is often dependent...
View ArticleHarvest of blessings as Otun-Moba celebrates new yam
BY SIJIBOMI FATAYO AND OLAMIDE BABATUNDE The celebration of the Annual Yam Festival in Otun-Moba Kingdom of Ekiti State does not only signify the New Year for the kingdom, but also prosperity and...
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BOOK REVIEW: Chasing shadows and blowing trumpets
Girls in Search of Husbands & Other Stories, Bukar Usman, Klamidas Books, 2006, pp. 92 By HENRY AKUBUIRO The archeologist and the folklorist have something in common: both are diggers with...
View ArticleAgain, no winner for NLNG Prize for Literature
BY DAMIETE BRAIDE In 2004 and 2009, there was no winner in the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG), Prize for Literature. In 2015, no winner emerged again as none of the entries met the required...
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Erroneous depiction of Abam in Chinua Achebe’s novels
BY ABALI ABALI Chinua Achebe came in contact with Abam through myth during his days as a student of Fisher High School (now Government College) Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria. Unfortunately, he...
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BM DZUKOGI: I have penchant to unfold complex realities
For over two decades, Baba Muhammad Dzukogi, popularly known as BM Dzukogi, has led the life of an artistic factotum. A poet, short story and children’s literature writer, essayist and public speaker,...
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Literati Philosophia confab: Scholars bemoan societal foibles
BY HENRY AKUBUIRO Last year, the annual Professor Fidelis Okafor international lectures was inaugurated at the Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam, formerly Anambra State University....
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Tony Akudinobi: Designer after Wole Soyinka’s heart
BY UZOR MAXIM UZOATU The event sponsored by Globacom Unlimited at Eko Hotel & Suites was billed as “An Evening with Wole Soyinka and Nigeria’s Outstanding Literary Writers”. But something...
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Nigeria @55: Dramatizing national pride
BY ONAOLATOMIRIN FALADE Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them...
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Thespian Family enacts Altine’s Wrath
BY OLAMIDE BABATUNDE Theatre lovers will have an exciting moment as Thespian Family Theatre and Productions will stage Altine’s Wrath written by Femi Osofisan at the National Theatre, Orile Iganmu,...
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JP Clark heralds Lagos International Poetry Festival
By HENRY AKUBUIRO Poets from Nigeria and beyond will be entertaining the literary community in the forthcoming Lagos International Poetry Festival holding later in the month. The five-day festival,...
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Artists ignite Wheatbaker with The Contemporaries
By Olamide Babatunde Nigerian contemporary leading and emerging artistes are currently holding a group exhibition titled The Contemporaries at Wheatbaker Hotel, Lagos State. The exhibition continues...
View ArticleCoal City Literary Forum celebrates Anezi Okoro
By JIMOH IBRAHIM Coal City Literary Forum (CCLF) will, as part of its efforts to recognise writers and personalities who have distinguished themselves in the promotion of reading culture in the...
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JRT storms Abuja with three plays
By Olamide Babatunde Jos Repertory Theatre (JRT) is set to three theatre stage plays at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) beginning from Monday, October 12 at the Lagos Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja,...
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Biu Emirate in the eye of history
A History of Biu, Bukar Usman, Klamidas Communications Ltd, Abuja, 2015, pp. 693 Henry Akubuiro Unlike many retired bureaucrats, who, after retirement from public service, merely vegetate and...
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Adesina, Dame Fashola, Adams, Oni, others for Kehinde’s book presentation
BY CHIOWA GOODNESS All is now set for the public presentation of the book, 50 Yoruba Movies Stars, written by Kehinde Aderemi, a journalist with The Sun, on Sunday, November 1, 2015, at the Ostra Hall...
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Funny in the Dictionary of Tears: Alice Omenka in wonderland
BY HENRY AKUBUIRO A play hardly comes alive until it is realised on stage. So far, 2015 has been a pleasant year for theatre denizens across Nigeria, for performances have been bursting at the seams....
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Bruce Onobrakpeya: Where I got my influence
BY JIMOH RASAKI, ARIYIKE LATEEF AND PRECIOUS OLUWAJUNI Dr. Bruce Obameyoma Onobrakpeya, 83, is a Nigerian print maker, painter and sculptor. At the Nigerian College of Art, Science and Technology, now...
View ArticleDancing with gusto: Dancers blaze British Council’s trail
BY DAMIETE BRAIDE AND CHIOWA GOODNESS There is ability in disability, as artistes from three different dance companies from Nigeria and United Kingdom, participated in British Council’s dance project,...
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