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Ladi Kwali

Arts, Culture – Others, Finance – Money, People, Tradition – Customs

Hadiza Ladi Kwali born in c.1925, was a Nigerian potter, the best known one in her time whose work won international acclaim for its ingenuity and beauty. Ladi Kwali was a native of Kwali village in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria. Growing up in a community where pottery was a common craft for the…
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Agbani Darego

Arts, Fashion – Lifestyle, Lifestyle – Fashion, People, Popular Culture

Agbani Darego; highly sought-after international model and a spokesperson of L’Oreal, the renowned French cosmetic house with her face appeared on several billboards around the world. On November 17,2001 Darego beat 92 other contestants to win the beauty pageant in South Africa’s Sun City, Johannesburg. Her rise to fame, in the glamorous world of beauty…
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Afrobeat

Arts, Entertainment – Media, Entertainment – Music, music, Music – Afro-Hip-Hop, Music – Pop, Music – Rap, Social – Relaxation

There is no denying that Nigerian Afrobeat is fashioned after American popular music. When Majek Fashek, a musician from the old bloc came back to Nigeria after a while, he confessed to “watch TV and see his younger brothers in music playing American kind of music.” He was very impressed they were doing American kind…
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Tales By Moonlight

Arts, Literature – Fiction, Literature – Myths, Philosophy – African, Social – Relaxation, Tradition – Customs

Tales By Moonlight, Nigeria Television Authority, NTA’s network programme for the kids which dramatises the Nigerian folklore exploits the whole gamut of television formats. The programme which debuted in 1983 provide for the young Nigerian audience entertainment as well as performing an invaluable integration of the different cultures of the Nigerian society. Showing every Sunday…
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The Ozidi Saga

Arts, Literature – Fiction, Literature – General, Literature – Others

The Ozidi Saga; Play by J.P. Clark, a revenge tragedy based on an Ijaw myth about treachery and vengeance. Ozidi being a festival play and plucked from mythology, brims with African performance elements such as mime, music, dance/poetry and ritual. But behind the facade of myth, Ozidi packs a potent number of relevant socio-political comments…
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David Dale

Arts, People

David Dale Herbert; one of the foremost masters of visual arts in Nigeria. Dale’s specialty is in illustration and graphic design, and he has won awards before university. After graduating from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1971 he had won gold and silver medals as well as a silver cup in international art contest organised…
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Amadi

Arts, Entertainment – Nollywood, History – Civilization, Nollywood – General, Nollywood – Others, Social – Relaxation

Amadi; the first Nigerian feature film in a local dialect, shows an artist who has managed to overcome the artist’s dilemma of satisfying audience who advocated that African films should reflect the aesthetic and intellectual pre-occupation of black people rather than imitate third-rate Western films. The plot of the film centres around Amadi (John Chukwu)…
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Kolade Oshinowo

Arts, Gallery, People, Social – Relaxation

Kolade Oshinowo; Nigerian romantic artist, Oshinowo is one of the most classical visual artists in the country. Oshinowo was born February 6, 1948, Ibadan, Oyo State. He was educated at Macjob Grammar School. Abeokuta, 1961-63, Ibadan Grammar School, 1964-66, and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1968-72. He was appointed Lecturer II at King’s College, Lagos, 1972;…
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Brymo

Arts, Music – Afro-Hip-Hop, Music – Others, People

Ashimi Olawale; songwriter and rapper, known as Brymo. An only child, Brymo grew up in Okokomaiko, Lagos, a fairly nice neighbourhood and a mixed environment of peoples in different economic ladder. He spent whole days on the streets playing football, like in the ghetto. He dropped out of the Lagos State University, Ojo, where he…
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Adetoyese Laoye

Arts, Music – Old, People, Philosophy – African, Tradition – Ceremonies, Tradition – Customs

Adetoyese Laoye; Timi of Ede. Before he ascended the throne in the 1940s, he was a church organist, a great dancer, a good singer, a lover of culture, and a historian. He was so culturally minded that he turned Ede to one of the nation’s cultural shrines to which people from far and near made…
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