iREP 2016 Documentary Film Festival Kicks Off in Grand Style
The much awaited and highly anticipated iREPRESENT, the biggest documentary film festival on the West African Coast with the theme #Change- Documentary Films as Agent Provocateur kicked off on Thursday 24th March 2016 in grand style. The festival which is being held at the Freedom…
Prof.Wole Soyinka, Manthia Diawara Others Gear Up for iREP Film Festival 2016
It is no longer news that the biggest film festival in Africa is kicking off tomorrow powerfully. Earlier on today,Manthia Diawara who is slated to speak at the film festival,the Producer of the film “Negritude:A Dialogue between Senghor and Wole Soyinka “ arrived in company…
VIDEO: Ranti Hits the Screen with the visual of “Iwe Kiko”
In this amazing,well scripted and culturally set video,Ranti takes a deep dive into one of the oldest folklore songs in Yoruba Land. The song itself is one of the few amazing songs for mostly kids that grew up in the early 70.s and 80’s,its a…
Faaji Agba,Ota Benga and 30 other Documentaries to be Screened at iREP 2016
The 2016 i-Represent International Documentary Film Festival is the sixth edition of the popular annual festival, which is the biggest on the West African coast and it is scheduled to hold from the Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th March 2016, at Freedom Park, Broad Street,…
Crown Prince of Benin Installed as Edaiken of Uselu
Centuries of a proud tradition was on display over the weekend in the ancient city of Benin as the Edaiken is finally installed at Uselu The Benin Crowned Prince, Eheneden Erediauwa, was on Saturday in Benin formally installed as the Edaiken of Uselu after the…
PHOTOS:Oba Ogunwusi and Olori Wuraola Thanksgiving Ceremony at Ile- Ife
The people of Ile-Ife have an Olori. Over the weekend, 12th March 2016, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi got married to Wuraola Obanor, who is now the Olori. As tradition demanded Oba Ogunwusi was not present at the wedding which took place…
Freedom Park Holds Exhibition for Displaced Artists
On 23 January 2016, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) Artists’ Village was invaded by men of the Nigerian Police. The artists who lived and worked in the Village were displaced, and their art works destroyed. Smart Ovie, one of the artists, escaped the…
Goethe-Institut Nigeria and CCA Lagos Opens PEREGRINATE, a Photography Exhibition Today
The exhibition, featuring the works of three photographers: South Africans Thabiso Sekgala and Musa Nxumalo, and Kenyan Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, explores the concept of photography as a common method of investigation, discovery and representation – an act of wandering undertaken by the photographer as traveler…
Poets Celebrate International Women’s Day with Coloured Chalks
Earlier on this week, women all over the world celebrated the International Women’s Day, they were celebrated too, by their male counterparts. At Freedom Park Lagos, Nigeria’ cultural art hub, there was a different kind of celebration. An otherwise regular day at the park changed…
Vision of the Child presents Sisi-Eko @50 Experience
A new phase of Vision of the Child (VoTC) project tagged “Sisi-Eko@50 Experience (SE@50)” has been declared opened to the public from the 8th of March. It will run for a period of 50 days. According to the Project Director, Foluke George, the new phase is designed to engage…