WS80 Diaries. Fehinty Theatre, Wole Soyinka and the Chicago Tale.
A man such as “Kongi” is not just a man, he has over the years transformed his mortal personality to an institution, an enigma that will be around for a long time. Just last week when the Literature Icon turned 80, friends and people around…
Hausa Folktale: Death, Adamu and the Rich man’s son.
He was the richest in the town. He had a son; the chief of the town also had a son. The chief’s son said he wanted to have the rich man’s son as his friend. In this relationship; the chief’s son didn’t like the rich…
Mobile West Africa 2014 brings World’s Most Influential Mobile Expert to Nigeria in May.
Tomi Ahonen, the man measured by Forbes as the world’s most influential expert in mobile, will be taking to the stage and sharing his esteemed vision of the future of mobile at the Mobile West Africa 2014 conference, taking place in Lagos. Mobile West Africa…
ABIKU;The unfulfilled part of a mother’s dream.
It was a raining day,the goats and the chickens were in their houses wet, and the gods expressed their emotions as thunders ran from the sky and shook the core of Iya Joke’s hut. The last rain was 3 moons ago, so many people consider…
iRepresent International Documentary Film 2014 ” AFRICA IN SELF-CONVERSATION.”
The iRepresent International Documentary Film Forum is an organisation dedicated to promoting awareness about the power of documentary films to serve as a means of deepening and sharing social and cultural education as well as encouraging participatory democracy in our societies. It is conceived on…
Sustaining the Glow: A Womanist Peek into the Female Emancipatory Attributes in Queen Amina of Zazzau.Part 1
Much has been recognized, recorded, and submitted about the person of Queen Amina of Zazzau – the powerful 16th Century Nigerian female warrior whose ability to expand her territorial frontiers still evoke awe in the conscious memory of those who concern themselves with her legacy…
ISE L’OGUN ISE. The Cultural concept of Hardwork and Dilligence.
Growing up in the south west of Nigeria. I came across this song when i was in the Primary school,its tuned in the Yoruba language and it goes Ise l’ogun ise Mu ra si ise ore mii Bi a ko ba reni feyin tii,bi ole…
Role of women in African history and the Identity theft.Part 2.
(Continuation from Part 1) The land boasts in more contemporary time of the likes of Fumilayo Anikulapo Kuti. Years before the second wave of feminism began to take form in the West, there was a woman making activist waves in Nigeria. She was a woman nationalist…
Looking right by my hair .THE AFRICAN WOMAN STORY.
I was having this conversation with a good female friend of mine some nights ago and I was surprised when she told me she’s now leaving her weaves and trying an Afro out of her natural hair .I mean I used to know her…
Women in Power: Madame Efunroye Tinubu-1st Iyalode of Egba land.
The amazing thing about legends and myths is this,apart from the fact the stories have been passed down from one generation to another, and facts are either added to or taken away from it…It’s true,they once existed on the same earth we are walking.Great men…