ASIRI Magazine Presents Colours of Naija Festivals Campaign
One important thing about festivals is their constant reminder of the importance and beauty of a country’s culture and heritage. In a country as vast as Nigeria, there are over 31 listed cultural festivals in Nigeria and over 89 unlisted. These festivals propel our cultural…
ASIRI Magazine Presents ‘Colours of our History ‘Art Campaign
ASIRI Magazine, a digital repository with the concern of preserving and promoting the cultural heritage and history of Nigeria is set to embark on the art of telling the Nigeria history in a renewed form, taking heritage and culture to a new level with its…
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…
Stephanie Linus-‘Film Makers are Custodians of our Culture’
Stephanie Linus, award winning actress, Nollywood director, and model, said filmmakers have a duty to tell our stories and promote our culture. She was a guest speaker at the Arterial Network Cultural Management Programme, tagged Project Management Review, which was held at the British Council…
Meet The Artist:Dare Adenuga. Artist with no Boundaries
When his works first caught our interest we doubted if it was done by a Nigerian. His attention to detail, his use of colours, and how he employed this mix, was, to it keep short: simply mind blowing. The reason particular this edition is tagged…
Crown Troupe of Africa Celebrates 20th Anniversary with “Eko Theatre Carnival”
Glitz,Glamour,Razzmatazz and much more is going to be the order of the day as one of Nigeria’s home grown theatre art organization will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary at Freedom Park, Lagos. Tagged the “Eko Theatre Carnival” the 7 days festival will be featuring seminars,…
Dele Jegede’s Transition of a legacy illuminated TerraKulture
Professor Dele Jegede is a living legend in Africa’s contemporary art. In, fact, he is a colossus. After his last exhibition in Lagos six years ago, the septuagenarian came back in a big form on a platform designed for men of his stature to run…
#WarAgainstArt: Court strikes out the case against artist Jelili Atiku and 5 others
Yesterday, Nigerian performance artist Jelili Atiku, poet Adeola Goloba and 4 others regained their freedom as Ejigbo Magistrate Court struck out all criminal charges instituted against them by the Nigerian Police. After about 4 hours of deliberations at the court chamber in an attempt to…
LAGOS@50 Second Festival Colloquium: IKEJA Takes Turn.
The one year widely accepted golden jubilee of the state dubbed as ‘Center of Excellence’ which was officially flagged off on May 27th by the propitious Logo unveiling and other razzmatazz held a colloquium lecture at the popular Lagos Airport Hotel on the 16th day…
“The Yoruba nation is in a state of arrested development.” Adebayo’s open letter to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
A long time ago stood a proud tribe, full of dreams, with desire to cause a big change in the world. A tribe armed with savvy business tycoons, intellectuals, power thinkers, great minds, backed with a great sense of culture and identity. They had a…