by abubakaradam | May 17, 2016 | Culture, Thoughts on Things
Over the weekend, hundreds of theatre lovers streamed into Abuja’s Transcorp Hilton for the staging of the much talked-about play, Hear Word! It ended up saying far more than the producers intended. Daily Trust reviews the performance. ‘Hear Word! Naija Women Talk...
by abubakaradam | Jan 4, 2016 | Culture
A work of art that draws not only tourists and art lovers from all over the world, but also pregnant women and those hoping to have children Monterchi, is a small Italian municipality nestled on the hills not far from Arezzo. At the heart of this sleepy hill town is a...
by abubakaradam | Sep 4, 2015 | Culture
Nollywood star actress, Stephanie Okereke-Linus just premiered her heart-wrenching movie DRY in Abuja, which tells a powerful story about vesico Vaginal Fistula. In this interview, the director and lead actress in the movie talks about her cause, the joy of...
by abubakaradam | May 9, 2015 | Culture
Arojah Theatre breathes life into Ben Tomolojun’s wilted flower Few gladiators have kept the flame of the theatre burning in Abuja, the city without a functional purpose-built theatre. Fewer have done it with the persistence and consistency that Arojah Theatre has...
by abubakaradam | Jul 4, 2014 | Culture
“When you want to shoot, shoot, shoot, don’t talk.” That is perhaps one of the most memorable line from a movie delivered in the 1966 Spaghetti Western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly by the ebullient bandit Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, simply known as...
by abubakaradam | May 28, 2013 | Book Talk, Culture
There was nothing more striking about Chinua Achebe’s funeral than the ambiance for how does one mourn a man who had become an ancestor while still very much alive? And perhaps caught in this conundrum, events to mark the funeral, euphemistically dubbed...
