Everything Precious Is Fragile is an opportunity to collapse the conventions that define the nation in the global popular imagination. VENICE — Still in 2024, inclusion in La Biennale de Venezia remains an honour. It’s a symbol of recognition, legitimacy even,…
Poetry
PICTORIAL: Inside the most expensive school in Nigeria
Inside Charterhouse Lagos, A newly commissioned primary school in Lekki with its secondary school underway that charges N42m as a fee per annum. Charterhouse Lagos is the first British independent school in West Africa and part of the prestigious Charterhouse…
Painting of Poetic Commerce
The global pandemic has only magnified an existing loneliness epidemic. It didn’t create it. Yes, loneliness was an epidemic during the time we now refer to as “before” (like the pre-apocalypse world in a work of science fiction.) Even though we have…
Book Review: Art in development – a Nigerian perspective
In reflecting upon Uche Okeke’s paintings, poems and drawings collected under the handle, Art In Development – A Nigerian Perspective, one is constrained to appropriate a Roman Catholic analogy; Asele is Uche Okeke’s patron saint and Ana is the deity.…
THE LOVE AND THE MONEY
See the chirping of the love, I think he’s angry at the shove. He finds it hard to see the honest, Overshadowed by the impatient pianist. Who is that calling near the idea? I think she’d like to eat the…
MY DOGGY ATE MY ESSAY – BY DARREN SARDELLI
My doggy ate my essay. He picked up all my mail. He cleaned my dirty closet and dusted with his tail. He straightened out my posters and swept my wooden floor. My parents almost fainted when he fixed my bedroom…
RITMO/RHYTHM
Mad has decided to catch a vulture, the biggest bird she can find. She is so determined, and so inventive, that by stringing together a rickety trap of ropes and sticks, she creates a puzzling structure that just might be…
HONEYMOON OVER
Is it still love or am I just used to it? The everyday grotesque is just fine. Content may mean good… But the crying, why is it, that I find it so easy to walk away By: H W Erellson
A YEAR DOT
BY DG NANOUK OKPIK For Arthur Sze (Qin) Dim Sum equivalent to: dot, speck heart. Stone piled on stone I finish my meal. In this early sunrise I see shadows where a cairn of rocks used to stack in the direction of eastern…