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The three-day inaugural Abuja International Poetry Festival took place last week in various venues across the Nigerian capital. It was a cultural melting pot for poets, dreamers, intellectuals, and adventurers. Under the theme “Afro…

In an address at the 2024 Igba Oruru Eke Annual Cultural Festival, Dr. Chukwuma Ezeoruonye, a respected traditional medical practitioner and Supreme Leader of the Traditional Practitioners Association of Nigeria, passionately defended the…

Award winning megastar, Rema is set to join acclaimed performers like J Cole, SZA and Nicki Minaj on the stage of the forthcoming Dreamville Festival. The Festival which will be held in Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina on…

Iconic buildings and recreation spaces in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have been dazzling in red to celebrate the arrival of Chinese Spring festival. The Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is China's grandest traditional festival…

An annual science and leadership festival helps to train young people in Sierra Leone. For the past seven years, Project 1808 has taken place in Kabala, in the Koinadugu district in the north of the country. "What we try to do in a…

A professor of arts and President of the Nigeria Academy of Letters, Duro Oni, has commended the management of  National Arts Theatre under the leadership of Prof. Sunday Ododo for using the creative industry as emblem of unity in the…

 The organisers of Culturati, a cultural fair, have scheduled the 17th edition of the event for  Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 in Lagos. Tiwasayo Odugbesan, Project Coordinator for Culturati, disclosed this during a news conference on Wednesday in…

Senegal has temporarily brought back into service a long-closed railway line to take worshippers to an annual religious festival. Three trains, each capable of carrying 240 passengers, are being deployed on a 130-kilometre line between…

Thousands of South Sudanese revelers gathered for Aweil town’s cultural peace festivals, a two-day happening where vibrant singing and dancing kept visitors thoroughly entertained. Organized by the Northern Bahr El Ghazal’s State…

Forty-six countries were represented at the festival in Rabat Morocco’s capital, which is currently the African Capital of Culture. Africa makes up only one percent of the world's Cultural and Creative Industries, but the eighth Movement…