Entries For Ken Saro Wiwa Book Review Competition
The organisers of the Lagos Book and Art Festival have called for entries for reviews of any one of five works of Ken Saro Wiwa’s fiction and drama.The best review of either Sozaboy, A Forest of Flowers, Adaku and Other Stories, Prisoners of Jebs, or…
UR4AFRICA DIARY: Lagos To New York Part 1 #PublicArtNigeria
A couple of weeks ago Ur4Africa,a media based group that strives to create innovative African content and provide a space for creative learning and qualitative education for students in Nigeria took 3 of its students under the Public Art Nigeria initiative to New York on…
Video: Igbo’s Learning English in 1949. Pre-Colonial Nigeria
An interesting and insightful video as to how Igbo’s in Nigeria learn to read and write in pre-colonial times. There was no classrooms, or an organized set up that allowed for proper education in those times, so the best way of learning was through the…
Amazing Creative Art Works From UR4Africa Mural Project
In collaboration with our partners #DreamAfrica we are using this week to continue honoring the lives of the young people lost during the Soweto Uprising in South Africa in 1976. Public Art students have been learning about and developing images focusing on Africans who have…
Genii Games Releases Updated Yoruba101 App for Learning; Legend Edition
Genii Games Limited is pleased to announce an updated version 2.0 of its interactive Yoruba language teaching mobile app for kids – Yoruba101. Yoruba101 version 2.0 for iOS and Android is a good starter to the Yoruba language and Culture for kids. The updated version…
History & Pride of Calabar High School, Jamaica.
In the early 16th century Nigeria’s notable ports for the trade and transfer of slaves were Badagry and Calabar. These slaves were sometimes taken to the Carribeans, West Indies and other settlement in the different parts of the world but they always took with them,…
#FELABRATION2014 Presents Fela Debates 6th Edition “The Amalgamation of the Peoples of the Niger Area”
As we countdown to Felabration 2014,The Felabration Organising Committee in its tradition of educating and impacting the minds of Nigerians is back with the Fela Debates in its 6th Edition. The Fela Debates is part of programs lined up for Felabration 2014,the annual music festival…
CORA Presents it’s 6th Annual Book Party; Celebrating Nigeria Literature Scene
The Committee For Relevant Art (CORA), will be hosting a Book Party for the authors long listed for the Nigeria Literature Prize for 2014.The event comes up at the Federal Palace Hotel on Victoria Island on Sunday August3, 2014, at 2pm. This edition of the…
Wole Soyinka Exhibition at Kongi Harvest Art Gallery. #WS80 Project Celebration in Lagos
On Saturday July 5th art lovers, artists, and patriots packed the Kongi Hall in Freedom Park for the formal opening of the #WS80 Project exhibit. To highlight the importance of art education in Nigeria, artist as young as 11 years old were solicited for the…
‘ASIRI’ Partners with CATE for the “GREEN FESTIVAL” at the 15th Lagos Book and Arts Festival 2013.
Nigeria’s first online cultural art magazine ‘Asiri’ is scheduled to release a Review on the life and times of Madame Efunroye Tinubu in partnership with CATE at the 15th Lagos Book and Art Festival 2013. CATE, which coordinates the children section of the festival will…