Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Women’s prize for fiction reveals ‘outward-looking’ longlist

Judges acclaim the boldness of a 16-strong selection that ranges from a future utopia to the arrival of a mermaid in Georgian London Alison Flood Wome

How diversity met universality at Cape Town Art Fair

When artists, enthusiasts and fun seekers converged at the 2018 Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF) in Cape Town, South Africa, expectations on what t

Don advocates health scheme for Nigerian artistes

Professor Kalu Uka of the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Uyo, has called for the establishment of a health insurance scheme for artistes in

Ugandan novelist Jennifer Makumbi clinches N60m Windham Campbell Prize

Ugandan novelist Jennifer Makumbi has been awarded a $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. The author of the novel Kintu was announced as one o

Is publishing in Nigeria on the rise?

Nigeria has never been short of writers, even before the advent of colonialism, there has been a long tradition of literature in northern Nigeria, usi