Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Nigerian wins UK poetry prize

Caleb Femi is among the winners of the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2021 in London.  Femi’s ‘Poor’ won the best first collection category of the award. F

Documentary on displaced people in Borno premieres in Abuja

A documentary on the struggles of displaced communities in Borno State premiered at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.  The documentary, titled HOPE, wa

How I felt when Aké Festival’s headliner won Nobel – Lola Shoneyin

Lola Shoneyin, the director of the annual Aké Arts and Book Festival said it was through the festival she first encountered Nobel Prize winner Abdulra

Art expresses things that cannot be put in words – Sokari Douglas

Sokari Douglas Camp was born in Buguma, Nigeria, a Kalabari town in the Niger Delta but based in London. The award winning artist’s commitment to envi

How Kunle Afolayan turned Atta’s novel into Netflix movie

Nigerian-American writer Sefi Atta’s second novel, “Swallow,” is now the subject of a Netflix movie. The new Netflix movie “Swallow” is based on the n