Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Zuru community to celebrate Uhola festival

The Emir of Zuru, Alhaji Muhammadu Sani Sami (Gomo II) has announced the commencement date of the annual Uhola Festival in Zuru community of Kebbi Sta

V&A’s Ethiopian treasures: A crown, a wedding dress and other loot

The UK’s Victoria and Albert Museum has offered to return on loan treasures to Ethiopia seized by British troops 150 years ago, including an orn

How controversy marred Hausa Writers day

Forget the fact that the country is in recession. Forget also, that the event was scheduled in the middle of the month for mostly salary-dependent par

How controversy marred Hausa Writers day

presentations receives accolades, becomes an instant celebrity. None of these took place at this writers’ event, held because of them. One would

Hassan Hajjaj makes Marrakesh go pop

As debate rages about cultural appropriation, his photographs are a celebration of border-crossing creativity  Born in Morocco and raised in Brit