This is an excerpt from a conversation I just had with a friend called ‘Suzy’. We are friends on Blackberry Messenger, and today she woke...

CHOCOLATE So sweet, so light-Such pleasure brings pain Brown to white cling, bringing imperfections to light, Again we lunge for it-so...

In traditional African art, the human form is exaggerated for effect, while the western traditions followed the rules of proportion and...

“It is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things,” Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter.

Political animals tell mythic tales, full of hyperboles and fables. Winning is the only truth they all know. So it seems. Of the 28...

A dictator is one man whose word is deed. In democracies, a ruler can acquire the same power if the system is corrupt. It ends up being...

Maybe there are the exceptional fairytale endings that fall into place finally in the most unusual way. There was my dear friend Nkem...

Back to A Place in the Stars-the title rocks. Gideon Eche-Okeke is the suave lead actor, and has been nominated as Best Actor in the...

Of course that’s the awesome thing about our town- located on the shores of Nigeria’s largest lake, after Lake Chad. And the people? Our...

Big sister had to stay here alone for 3 years before she got her first companion-me. So, when I finally arrived, she took me everywhere,...

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As these things go, auctions are a good way of rating/pegging prices of works. So Mister Rahman Akar’s first auction of artworks...

The writer as ‘Eric’ Right from the first three hundred and sixty-five days of my life, I understood the importance of words in getting...

Mister Burns chilling in my studio If you ever meet him you would agree that Mister Burns has style, a personal style. He wears clothes...

Pictures within pictures..

Over the years I have taken tens of thousands of shots. That’s the digital luxury we enjoy these days. I was able to print at least a...

It hurts badly when you have worked all day, and hope to chill with some mind-bending exhilarating, inspiring and entertaining movie to...

I thrilled at the possibilities and the ideas that will be exchanged in this public discussion between El Anatsui and Obiora Udechukwu(...

The invitation came from Nsukka for an event in Lagos. The day before, I got a call from Chijioke Onuorah that they were coming to Lagos...