I was startled when I heard about the Walls of Benin. It was considered the largest man-made structure lengthwise and was hailed as the largest earthwork in the world. That’s mind blowing! Seeing that Nigeria has such an outstanding historic fact that’s exclusive and unique, no...
Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo varies in its different forms. Outside of Africa, most music from the Democratic Republic of Congo is called Soukous, which most accurately refers instead to a dance popular in the late 1960s. The term rumba orrock-rumba is also used generically to refer to...
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Yale University, through its MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, is organizing a series of important conferences on Africa-China relations (“Africa-China Relations: Balance, Growth and a Sustainable Future”) in collaboration with leading business schools in China and on the African continent. Attached is the...
This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and...
Nigerian-born Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise known as The Venus Bushfires, is a singer-songwriter who explains why she likes to tick the "other" box during an interview with Design Indaba. She’s a diaspora African: born in Nigeria and raised in London, she has been influenced by different styles, cultures...
Terra Kulture Terra Kulture is a leading art, culture, lifestyle, and educational centre located in Lagos, Nigeria. Since its establishment in 2004 by respected businesswoman and art connoisseur Bolanle Austen-Peters to promote the richness and diversity of Nigerian Languages, Arts and Culture, Since then, Terra Kulture has become...
Are you in Nigeria and got some free time? Why not visit: The Muson Centre Located in the heart of Lagos Island, situated conspicuously between the National Museum, the City Mall, the age-long Onikan Stadium and the former official residence of the Nigeria’s foremost Centre of artistic...
emc3 Nigeria was present at the FCMB Dare2Dream Finale. The highly anticipated event, which was a culmination of many weeks of intensive research that took the Dare2Dream & FCMB teams across 3 major universities in the country – University of Lagos, University of Abuja and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nigerian Helen Parker-Jayne Isisbor’s quest to champion her often-derided west African vernacular has spawned the first pidgin opera. This is opera, but not as you know it: it is the world’s first opera in pidgin, the language spoken by some 50 million people in West Africa’s...