Poets from all across the world to storm Lagos for International Poetry Festival
The city of Lagos will play host to 35 poets from across the world at the sophomore edition of the Lagos Poetry Festival, scheduled to hold from the 26th of October to October 30th at Freedom Park, and the Muson Center. With an exciting array…
PHOTOS: Fiesta Souk in Lagos: Bridging the gap between Food and Family
It was a grand family affair over the weekend as people all round Lagos trooped out in their hundreds to Harbour Point V.I in Lagos for the maiden edition of the Fiesta Souk in Lagos. A family oriented brand that brings people together to witness…
CORA Partners with Quramo Publishing for 7th Publishers Forum at LABAF 2016
Organised in partnership with Quramo Publishing Limited, our theme for this year’s forum is: Raising Standards: Rights, Distribution & Talent in the Publishing Industry. This year’s theme will focus on the challenges and aspects of raising standards in publishing in the areas of selling local…
Origins and Names:10 Popular Areas in Lagos and its Original Meaning
What’s in a name, origin or heritage? A lot I would say. It allows for originality, essence of life and a definition of what that name stands for. We start this first edition of Origins and Names from Lagos state, originally called “ lago de…
16th Century Benin Plaque to be auctioned for $800,000-1.2Million Dollars Today
A 16th-century bronze plaque recovered in 1897 from the charred ruins of the Benin Kingdom’s Royal Palace (Benin City, Nigeria) leads the Oct. 1 auction of the late Merton D. Simpson’s private collection. Quinn’s Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia (metro Washington, D.C.), will conduct…
Demolition of Ilojo Bar: Statement from the Lagos @50 Committee
The callous and vicious manner a 161 year old heritage building was destroyed on Lagos Island last week has been generating a lot of criticism from the culture and arts community and the entire people of Lagos,both home and abroad ever since the building popularly…
Sister Act The Musical Debuts in December with Omawumi
The formal introduction of the project by the Nigeria producer of the globally acclaimed theatrical production, SOJI AKINKUGBE (CEO, Adebayo Akinkugbe Productions, AAP), in the course of launch of the AJIBAYO AKINKUGBE FOUNDATION, a not-for-profit organisation focused on Education,Inspiration, Inclusion and Engagement). The AAP is…
Ilojo Bar: Murdered in Broad Daylight, 1855-2016.
Sunday 10 September 2016, a cultural heritage site was desecrated. The bulldozers, supposedly owned by ‘developers’, which rolled into 6 Alli and 2 Bamgbose Streets, CMS Lagos-Island, and destroyed the 161 year-old building opposite Tinubu Square, committed murder, in the first degree. It murdered the…
Meet the Artist: Alimi Adewale “Between Minimalism and Abstraction”
Alimi Adewale’s practice posit genres traditionally evoked in painting—such as portraits, landscapes, and nudes but with a contemporary expression in a profusion of rich texture and often uncommon sculptural finish. Whether utilizing photography and oil paint (Owambe, 2015) or thick lump of oils mediums, (House…
Lagos the Original Southern Lady of Means. 4th Festival Colloquium for Lagos at 50
Before crude oil became cool, that is, before it became the chief revenue source for the Nigerian government, there was Lagos. Circa 1905, when the ‘geographical expression’ now called Nigeria was administered in three separate regions—Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, and Colony of Lagos—it was Lagos…