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Adebisi Adenike Adebayo is an artist using the indigenous Oduduwa (Yoruba)-African style of sculpture.This style is associated with men only within the indigenous African tradition.Ms. Adebayo, surprisingly, is a woman.How did this happen?Who is she?Who trained her?What are the processes ...

Hilda Effiong-Bassey representing Nigeria emerged winner and walked away with a grand prize of $5,000 (N2.5m). The maiden edition of the ‘Jollof Faceoff’ competition was held over the weekend at The Rooftop by Ohuru HSE, Boardroom Apartments, Lekki, Lagos. The ...

Join us on the 21st of August as we celebrate the coronation of the 21st Olu of Warri kingdom.

“Virtually everything they havve learned about an Orisa house (or temple) comes from Nollywood films and their Christian and Muslim clerics. How does Nollywood present Orisa houses? In the worst possible forms, to scare people, to malign and demonize the ...

Sango Festival 2021 at Oyotunji Village, South Carolina, USA

Dayo Ojerinde5 August 2021 A 39-year-old man, Ibietan Oluwafijimi, is in need of N7m for a kidney transplant. The National Secretary of the Aquinas College Akure Old Students’ Association, Mr Lanre Abiodun, in a letter, appealed to members of the ...

Do you know it is not IJESA OSERE (Ìjẹ̀sà an entertainer) ?It is Ijesa o sun Òré (Ijesa do not sleep on Òré)Òré is a mat (ẹnì ore) and there is history about itLet me explain.“Òré “is a kind of ...

Once upon a time, a tick and a dog sat together on a green field.Quickly, the tick buried itself inside the skin of the dog and began to suck the blood of the dog.The dog, feeling dizzy from the loss ...

That was what my clock read. Thirty-four minutes past midnight. Perfect math, I thought. I got up to take a walk. I plugged my ears with my earphones and turned on Apple Music 1. I stepped out into the darkness ...

by Pepe Escobar with permission and first posted at Asia Times The annual MAKS aerospace show kicked off its 2021 installment at Zhukovsky Airport outside Moscow – not with a bang, but with multiple bangs. MAKS – whose name is an ...