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All hail the new Omo n’Oba

Ihesiulo Grace 27 May 2016 0

Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa , a career diplomat, becomes the new Oba of Benin. After a very successful career as Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Norway and Angola, Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa is now about to head one of the country’s most very notable kingdoms. He has been approved as

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A peep into the Grail Movement

Ihesiulo Grace 19 May 2016 0

In the Grail Movement, also known as Grail Message, members, known as ‘adherents and cross bearers’, are told to believe that whatever happens to one in this life is as a result of previous existence, called karmic burden,  when the human soul reincarnates from one primordial plane to another in the course of its journey […]

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Statue misrepresents Ojukwu – art promoter

Ihesiulo Grace 19 May 2016 0

For many years, Anambra State-born cultural activist and art promoter, Ozochinedu Idezuna, has been campaigning for the dismantling of the Odumegwu Ojukwu statue at the Onitsha head bridge, Anambra State. His reason: “the statue makes the Ikemba look more like a dictator rather than an authentic Igbo leader”. Agozino Agozino meets him again. Anambra State-born […]

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The digital man

Ihesiulo Grace 16 May 2016 0

Inside the studio of Toyin Omolowo, in Ikeja Lagos, there is a new art style dubbed, ‘Digital Painting,’ which the burgeoning artist is propping to become a brand. Hesays that visual art future lies in this new form which will soon take over art market not only in Nigeria but in the world. Think of […]

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A Creative Vision Workshop Project by Wilfred Ukpong

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2016 0

BC1: Youth of Nigeria as Artists of the Future is an artistic workshop that focuses on developing cross-sector creative strategies that enable young artists and creative practitioners in Nigeria to become ‘agents of social and environmental consciousness and change’. This phrase is central to the field of socially engaged art practice and contemporary social sculpture.

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Rastaman, Bob Marley still vibrates, 35 years after

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2016 0

If Bob Marley was to be alive today, he would have released more powerful hits against injustice and oppression in the world. He fought for the emancipation of the black race. He committed his phenomenal artistic talent and energy to global harmony. He advocated a world where skin colour, tongue or race should constitute no […]

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Sixty-five balls for Nike Okundaye

Ihesiulo Grace 6 May 2016 0

Renowned textile artist and culture promoter, Chief (Mrs.) Nike Okundaye, will on Saturday, May 21 clock 65 years of age. Ahead of the celebrations, her gallery and mentees have concluded plans to celebrate Mama Adire, as she’s fondly called.  Programme of the event from her gallery hints that the event will be a mini-festival to […]

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Rare book about Forgiveness

Ihesiulo Grace 6 May 2016 0

A new book by Miakpo Emiaso transports its read to mysteries of forgiveness. Nicholas Okeugo offers a review  I have read Miakpo Emiaso’s books in the past. But reading Forgiveness – A Sure Path to Peace and Joy is a different ball game altogether. This is because no one reads this book without feeling affected […]

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The King ‘finally’ joins his forbears

Ihesiulo Grace 6 May 2016 0

…Grace, power of tradition in Benin kingdom NOT many lands can boast of the kind of cultural and artistic heritage like that of the Benin Kingdom, in Edo State. Benin City is filled with art works, art studios, galleries, outdoor sculptures, cultural centres, and traditional institutions among others. Despite modernisation, the city still wears it’s […]

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Taking dancing to a new level

Ihesiulo Grace 3 May 2016 Post a comment

Adedayo Liadi’s unique dance performance has taken him to over 60 different countries and endeared him to many lovers of the stage His life is dance, and dance is what he dreams every day. Testimony to his now growing popularity is what many will tell you whenever his name is mentioned. Muscular, easy going, but […]

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Ravages of Fulani herdsmen: Are writers up to the task?

Ihesiulo Grace 29 April 2016 0

Of late, the Fulani herdsmen spilling of blood from one part of the country to another have raised concerns on the security situation in the country. In retrospect, the farmers and the herdsmen clashed for so long in Plateau State, which led to several losses of lives. But when the clashes seemed to have abated […]

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Discover the attraction of Idanre Hills

Ihesiulo Grace 29 April 2016 0

  Caleb Akinboro takes a trip to Idanre hills, one of Ondo State’s main tourist attractions Ondo State the only state in Nigeria blessed with the highest coast line has several tourist’s centres whose historical values are unparalleled.  One of this tourist attractions is Idanre hills in Idanre town. Idanre hills otherwise  known as ‘Oke […]

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A glimpse into a builder’s art world

Ihesiulo Grace 24 April 2016 Post a comment

BEN IKIMI, a renowned builder and international designer, is an accomplished art collector, who, hardly,  opens his doors to the public to view his collected works of art. AGOZINO AGOZINO recently had an exclusive  chat with him at his home in Igueben, Edo State. When you walk into the home of Chief Ben Ikimi, you walk […]

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Old Lagos on canvas

Ihesiulo Grace 24 April 2016 0

KEHINDE SANWO had, for a long time, been worried with the speed by which old architectural buildings, scattered all over Lagos were disappearing, due to regular forced demolition. AGOZINO AGOZINO feasts on some of his paintings, displayed at the ongoing art auction holding at Terra Kulture, Lagos, that tell the story of the city and […]

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Lights out for ‘Father of African Photography’

Ihesiulo Grace 22 April 2016 0

On Friday April 15, one of Africa’s renowned photo figures, Malick Sidibé, passed on quietly in his home country, Mali. He was aged 80. The late icon and mentor with outstanding record in documenting his country’s cultural heritage was a veteran pace setter to numerous young acts on the African continent. His faculty was peculiar […]

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Bone collage, Archie Abia, marches on with arts

Ihesiulo Grace 18 April 2016 0

Notable in the history of Nigerian contemporary art are artists who use different media to push art into the consciousness of the public. Here is Archie Abia, who uses bone collage to make art.  Agozino Agozino   Fate positioned artist Godwin Archie Abia on a good pedestal when others were grappling in the field of […]

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Wilfred Ukpong returns with socially-engaged art project

Ihesiulo Grace 18 April 2016 0

After a ten years self-imposed hiatus from the art world,WILFRED UKPONG, a renowned Oxford-based multimedia artist and scholar returns to Nigeria with an innovative social art project that is focused on youth empowerment and environmental sustainability through his current project entitled, Blazing Century 1.AGOZINO AGOZINO appraises the project and the artist’s studio

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Congress plans another FESTAC for 2017

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2016 0

 The Pan-African Cultural Congress Bureau (PACCB) said that it was planning to hold another World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture , popularly called FESTAC, in 2017. Its president, Dr Ferdinand Anikwe, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the event would be used to commemorate 40 years after FESTAC […]

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Set up Eko Oni Baje festival to prove a point – Chinedu Idezuna

Ihesiulo Grace 8 April 2016 0

 Promoter of the yearly Eko Oni Baje new yam and beach festival Ozo Chinedu Idezuna is well known cultural activist.  But not many people know the history of the festival which he usually organise every September in Ibeju Lekki.     Idezuna, who is also the founder of Castel Down Arts Centre,  a Lagos-based art promoting […]

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Enter Olusola Ayibiowu’s colour of Wisdom

Ihesiulo Grace 7 April 2016 0

SINCE the beginning of this world, the argument over wisdom and knowledge has been one of the most enduring. While some schools of thought hold that knowledge is the most essential thing others argue that it is wisdom. Though Ayibiowu Olusola David may not have any inclination to such philosophies the title of his recent […]