What was meant to be a celebratory moment for Nigeria’s art scene has instead highlighted present tension and past trauma ...

For observers of Nigeria’s cultural landscape, the Abuja Art Fair is a compelling study in how a personal vision can align with a ...

Reporting from Lagos, Nigeria — Late last year, a family in north London contacted the Bonhams auction house and asked one of its experts on African art to come see a painting that might solve a ...

Artist and festival founder Miabo Enyadike says that artists, as entrepreneurs, must redefine their approach to the rapidly expanding global creative economy. THE creative industry has become a ...

Through dazzling beadwork, a mixed-media art exhibit celebrates African Yoruba heritage and family traditions from a rising ...

Discover Nigeria’s rich artistic legacy at Tate Modern’s groundbreaking *Nigerian Modernism* exhibition—250 works by 50 trailblazing artists redefining global modernism and celebrating five decades of ...

You have to drive around an hour on a bumpy road from Lagos’s affluent neighborhood of Victoria Island to reach the pristine grassy site of the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, the location of the new ...

Emmanuel Item was first exposed to tattoo culture when he played guitar in a heavy metal band in Vienna. Item, who is of Nigerian and Austrian descent, already liked to draw in sketch pads, but after ...

Editor’s Note: Ugoma Adegoke is the founding director and curator of Bloom Art, Lagos. She is a creative entrepreneur, a vocal arts advocate and collector. Lagos CNN — When people think about the ...

In a coffee shop in Lagos, Nigeria, visual artist Ekene Ngige was meeting with some colleagues when he had an accidental eureka moment that would change the course of his career. Ngige knocked over ...

*My late mother’s brother-in-law, the late Engineer Idowu Akinde was an Executive Engineer at PWD in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, through whom Dr. Dele Jegede got his first job as a youngster. This provided ...

The Nigerian musician, 35, stars in a documentary exploring the widespread impact of his music — and how his art contributes to the reclaiming of African identity, a press release reads. The ...