Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Our best reads of 2017

We ask a select number of Daily Trust editors and reporters what books excited them in 2017 and they come up with an eclectic list sure to thrill book

The rise and fall of Hausa as a written language

I gave the above title to an article that I worked on some years ago but never completed!  It was prompted by the reduced demand for reading mate

‘Africans need to own their stories through photography’

You seem to love photographing people. Ted Grant is quoted as saying “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But whe

London falling

By Diana Evans We’ve heard the story before of the two teenage black boys living in one of London’s inner city estates, grappling with rac

The Nazi art hoard that shocked the world

The discovery of almost 1500 artworks including examples by Picasso, Munch, Matisse, Kirchner and Klee in the properties of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012