Tope Akintayo is a Cultural Manager, Anthologist/Curator, Creative Director, and Publisher with special interests in the arts, creative industries, classical and contemporary culture, and sustainability.
We sat down with Opeyemi Olukotun as part of The Creative Lane, a series of features in which we set the stage for creative people…
Craftsperson. Tick. Digital illustrator. Tick. Pilot. Tick. Entrepreneur. Tick. Community organizer. Tick. Amanda Kandawire-Khoza ticks all the boxes and more. In superwoman style. At age…
“So many artists have the talent, but they do not know about scaling their art into mainstream acceptance.” Ganiyat Sani told me during one of…
Azuka Muoh was recently listed as one of the top 10 up and coming Black artists to look out for in 2022. A 21-year-old filmmaker and contemporary…
Despite being a self-taught artist, Matthew Eguavoen, a full-time contemporary painter from Nigeria, has placed himself in the glorified league of professionally trained Black artists.…
Harry Odunze, a photographer and creative director from Benin, Nigeria, started photography because he fell in love with its vocabulary. While he was a student…
As opposed to finding poetry, Nigerian poet and spoken word artist Iyanu Adebiyi would argue that poetry found her. Poetry presented itself as solution to…
For Bertha Onyekachi, creativity is a lifestyle. She has always been very crafty and artsy. As a kid, her dad was mostly away at work,…
Ope Adedeji’s story, Women Who Bleed Colours, was shortlisted for the 2018 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction, and Finding Something Like Certainty in the…
