Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Traversing pre-colonial Nigeria with the last nomad

A review of Krisina Kaka’s novel ‘The Last Nomad’ (Media Range Publishers Abuja, 2015. Pages 146 pages) Reviewed by Salamatu Sule &l

‘Nigeria shaped the kind of poet I became’

Laura M. Kaminski, otherwise known as Halima Ayuba, grew up in Nigeria but now lives in rural Missouri, in the United States. She started writing in 2

The London Library: Where a book is never thrown out

At a time when libraries are in decline in Nigeria and the National Library in Abuja has remained uncompleted for years, one library in London is hold

Atunda Entertainment, Tanzania partner on art, tourism

Nigeria’s Atunda Entertainment is partnering with the Tanzanian government in an attempt to transfer artistic and creative technology via the pr

A Man Booker prize winner working on an African ‘Game of Thrones’

For the last year and a half novelist Marlon James has been sifting through “boring” academic history books, doing research on African kin