The Arts

English Heritage’s six portraits range from a Roman emperor to Queen Victoria’s goddaughter Six paintings that tell fascinating, not widely known stories of people from the African diaspora in England’s history, including the Roman emperor […]

Black Lives Matter Utah pulled out of this year’s Utah Pride Center’s festival citing concerns over the event’s lack of diversity. The LGBTQ organization changed the way they’re doing pride this year, replacing their annual […]

Scrolling through the comments made on YouTube on Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s music, one comes across remarks such as: “The greatest unknown musician who ever lived”, “Why isn’t Fela’s music more widely known?”, “His music beats everything […]

While we wait to take possession of the space, we are thrilled at what Glover Hall | The People Centre promises to become in the next 10 years. Through our youthful energy and techno-futurist social […]

By Andrew Pulver Yaphet Kotto, the African-American actor best known for memorable roles in Alien and the 007 film Live and Let Die, as well as the hit TV series Homicide: Life on the Street, […]

The management of National Gallery of Art has described as false, the recent allegation of graft by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Nigeria, which is currently circulating online. In the story, ‘National Gallery […]

(CNN)Across a rocky landscape, two young girls find themselves running for cover as spaceships fire laser guns into the field. To survive, both girls, dressed in all black except for a pop of pink boots, […]

Twenty years after the demise of a literary icon, Prof. Ola Rotimi, scholars and theatre practitioners in Nigeria and abroad recently honoured the playwright at a webinar organised by the Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State. […]

Towards the end of last year, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, looked worried. He was at the receiving end of punches from the critical culture community. Criticisms gainst him mounted from […]

As the world battles with coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has said what is needed now is, ‘magic of books’. In a statement to mark the World Book Day […]

In the last five years, I discovered that more youths are conscious and pro-active about educing peace and progress in the world, unlike antecedent times. One notable feature in this feat, is the founder of […]

Toni Morrison, an African-American woman and doyen of literature, a Nobel Laureate was called to the great beyond early this week at the age of 88. We begin this brief tribute in her honor, with […]

cross the breadth of fiction, the notion of male pregnancy has historically been played for laughs, terror or, most often, a combination of the two. The theatrical poster for the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Junior says […]

Binary Counting: Is its origin in West African traditional systems? In our elementary education, we learnt about number systems, integers, bases 2 and 10. Base 2 is the binary system of counting which reflect a […]

Okwui Enwezor, a renowned art curator, poet, and educator, has died after a battle with cancer. The Haus Der Kunst, a Germany-based non-collecting modern and contemporary art museum where he was artistic director from 2011 […]

The time is 2.30pm in Lagos. It’s a hot afternoon. The sweltering temperature seems even hotter outside the National Theatre complex, Iganmu. A convoy of trucks blares for passage, as the vehicles drive towards Ijora […]

Kehinde Wiley, a Nigerian painter, who was commissioned to do a portrait of former United States President Barack Obama, has been honoured with the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal by Harvard University. On Thursday, Kehinde alongside […]

The hall is bright not because the sun is at its brightest. The feeling in the room is spiritual not because the room is sited in a religious place. The sounds are angelic not because […]