Art

Digital Piracy in Nigeria: We Need Honest and Accommodating Conversations

The Nigerian literary community has been engaged in an important conversation around piracy, unapproved digitization, accessibility, and distribution of Nigerian and African books. Fortune Amor’s digitization of over 200 African writers’ books belonging to the Heinemann African Writers Series sparked this timely conversation. Nigerian journalist and writer, Molara Wood, and others have rightfully called out […]

Seyi Lasisi

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8 months ago

Digital Piracy in Nigeria: We Need Honest and Accommodating Conversations

Akay Mason’s “Red Circle” is a Thoughtful Drama that Doesn’t Add Up

The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]

Seyi Lasisi

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1 year ago

Akay Mason’s “Red Circle” is a Thoughtful Drama that Doesn’t Add Up

Aké Prepares for its 14th Edition

Ahead of the 2026 edition of the Aké Arts and Book Festival scheduled for 19–21 November 2026, the festival organizers hosted an intimate press conference to intimate the press members, as it has consistently done for years, with its planned festival activities and answer questions of curious journalists. Held at the book-monopolized Ouida Books, the […]

Seyi Lasisi

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1 week ago

Aké Prepares for its 14th Edition

Sabi Arts Limited Launches Sabi Arts Playwright Prize for Nigerian Playwrights

Sabi Arts Limited recently launched the inaugural Sabi Arts Playwright Prize, an annual award for Nigerian playwrights. This prize will recognise new and original writing for the stage, offers ₦1,400,000 in cash awards, a full stage production, and an inaugural digital anthology for emerging voices.  The Sabi Arts Limited-prize is keen to discover, elevate, and […]

Seyi Lasisi

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2 weeks ago

Sabi Arts Limited Launches Sabi Arts Playwright Prize for Nigerian Playwrights

Five African Artists, Two Weeks in Lagos: Inside Kokopelli’s New Residency

Kokopelli Art Foundation has launched its first artist residency, bringing together five artists from four African countries for a two-week programme of studio practice, mentorship and field research. What happens when five artists from four African countries are given two weeks in Lagos to work, research and develop a new piece of art? That is […]

Amber Asuni

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2 months ago

Five African Artists, Two Weeks in Lagos: Inside Kokopelli’s New Residency
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