“And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not..” John 1:5. Tega Akpokona is so young but...
Retro Art Africa, the Abuja based boutique art gallery run by Dolly Kola-Balogun has made a splash in New York...
Kainebi Osahenye is soft spoken, self-effacing but prodigiously talented. Usually not the tallest man in the room, he however produces...
On Wednesday November 13, 2019, award winning BBC journalist, Nancy Kacungira writing on twitter via her handle @kacungira tweeted: So...
Walking into the large hall that sunny afternoon, the first thought in my head was, “O boy! This is huge!”...
This is my third time at 1 -54 since it was launched in 2013 by Touria El Glaoui, as the pre-eminent international fair dedicated to providing visibility to contemporary art from Africa artists and those in the diaspora. 1-54 holds three editions every year—in London, New York and Marrakech with a pop-up fair in Paris
Rele art gallery presents “You May Enter” a solo exhibition by contemporary Nigerian artist Tonia Nneji from 2pm on November...
The works reflect the thoughts process of the émigré but where a less competent artist would have presented gloomy and depressing images we have an exuberance borne out of his choice of colours which manage to save the portraits from depressing the viewer.
The first time an artist and a liquor company collaborated on a bottle was in 1985. Absolut was a Swedish...
In Africa, only a glutton feasts alone. That truism has been highlighted in stories and myths across the continent from...
Stolen and looted artefacts from the Benin Kingdom are finding their way home. After decades of insistent cultural diplomacy...
Ike Ude’s portrait of Nollywood’s actors, actresses and directors is currently showing at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art...