72 hours, Two main venues, various art themes, and the finest art curators & lovers from Africa.
The BEETA Arts Festival is a leading Arts festival for telling African stories, returning this year to connect communities and creators through a three-day convergence of theatre,...
BN contributor, Michael Afenfia, and author of The Mechanics of Yenagoa and four other books, has a new book coming out soon: Leave My Bones in...
This stay at home order is doing a number on me. Honestly, it got me imagining things on the regular and my already creative mind is...
Yay! BN Features contributor, Michael Afenfia has a new book on the way and we are so thrilled! The Mechanics of Yenagoa was a weekly blog...
Were you born at a time your parents were looking for promotion on their jobs and they named you accordingly? Let’s hear it. Were you born...
When I received a text message from a longtime friend asking me to speak with a friend of hers, concerning a book project this friend of...
He wasn’t going to support my dream of going back to school with a letter recommending me to this university I am applying to, because I...
Remember the references to body bags and suggestions as to how to deal with ballot box snatchers? If my children were old enough to vote, honestly,...
Hello, if you are reading this, let me start by introducing myself. I am Tunde Ednut’s phone, and I am only a couple months old. I...
Legend came to us in a box nearly eleven years ago. He was a gift from a family friend in Port Harcourt we all fondly called...
On the first day of the year, amidst all the good wishes and prayers from family, friends and colleagues, I received a message from someone I...
The other day, I walked into my colleagues huddled around a phone. About six of them circled around this particular desk, gawking with so much intensity...
This week, I’ve been involved in preparations for a burial – the burial of my boss’ mum who died of lung cancer even though she did...
This week, I decided to share a personal story, one about my visit to Okaka prison, Yenagoa, in 2015. It was a visit that opened my...
A couple of days back, while on a visit to the hospital with my kids, we had to endure a long wait because of the number...
Imagine being Leah Sharibu’s father or mother and it’s the day after you hear an audio recording of your daughter who has been in captivity since...
My family is away on vacation and I have the whole house to myself. The first three days were magical; I couldn’t believe the quietness and...
Nigerians woke up on the morning of Tuesday, August 7 2018 to a rude shock. Our democracy was under attack. Masked men of the Department of...
The World Cup is finally over; France has won and the other thirty-one football crazy nations that took part in the competition and didn’t do quite...
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