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Olusola, Onobrakpeya, Babawale pay tribute to Beier THE GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, 07 APRIL 2011 00:00 BY MICHAEL ORIE AND YEMI OLAKITAN ART - ARTS DAYS after the death of the venerable arts and culture enthusiast, Ulli Beier, tributes and encomium have continued to pour in for the man who opened the Osogbo Art to the world. According to Prof. Tunde Babawale, Director General of Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), Beier was passionate about Nigeria arts and culture. While commiserating with the entire art and culture community over the passing on of the culture promoter, Babawale said, “was as a unique personality who made passionate and indelible contributions to the development and popularisation of Yoruba arts and culture.” The DG said Beier provided an enduring platform for interaction between Yoruba indigenous ideas, beliefs and practices and the European cultural space, the legacy of which is the Iwalewa House at the University of Bayreuth, which continue...

The road claimed a master of the stage. The shock of the violent death of my teacher, Femi Fatoba has become a deep wound on my heart... an endless stream of tears in my subconsciousness. It is harder to express it in words. Not because Fatoba, like every human, will not die but simply because he had to die the most undeserving death -- Road accident. And so the Road stole the dream in the broad daylight. I am still weeping in my the deep. Below is a tribute write up by MR SHAIBU HUSSEINI. So Long... Agbari Ojukwu (As appeared in The Guardian december 28, 2008) IT was difficult for the popular Nollywood actor Segun Aina Padonu ( Segun Arinze) to speak on the renowned actor, celebrated poet and playwright, Dr. Femi Fatoba in the past. ‘Uncle Femi can’t be dead,’ he exclaimed repeatedly as this writer tried to get his reaction as soon as news filtered in that the Ekiti-born theatre don, who until his untimely demise after a road accident last Saturday on the East/West highway near Patan...

They said Eniolorunda was 45 on January 16, 2008. As usual the birthday boy was tangled with his love. He did not remember. They did. The show of love was overwhelming. Hundreds of good, inspiring words filed his phone and mail box. He drew tears; the second time in five years -- first was Feb. 3rd in 2003, when shortly afer he returned to town from Europe, he was summoned by no less a person than the ElderArtsMan, Steve Rhodes.... "I am standing here im front of OJEZ, and i will not leave this spot until you show up a the door". It was an order; from the man who has come to represent the finest of artistic practice, an inspiration for generations of culture workers and producers of creative products. EniOlorun had to detour from Obalende, some 20 odd kilometres away from the spot where the Art sage was standing. He had landed that same morning from Italy, where he had spent the last two months. January 16 of that year, a dear friend had staged a remarkable family party fo...

Remembering St. Claire Bourne: ...The Documentary Major And Spike Lee’s film Accomplice BY FEMI ODUGBEMI (As published in The Guardian Sunday, January 6. 2007) St Claire Bourne at the Real Life Festival in Accra.. last year. (Please disregard date on foto. It was taken last year). ONE of the saddest news to hit the global community of filmmakers recently must be the death of legendary American documentarist St.Clair Bourne. Mr. Bourne passed on a few weeks ago in a New York hospital after an operation to remove a brain tumor. He was 64. I really got to spend time with St.Claire only once, but once was plenty because he left such a big impression on me and the shocking news of his transition has left me feeling a significant sense of loss. In early June last year I was invited to participate at the 2 nd Real Life Pan-African Documentary film festival in Accra Ghana. My documentary Ibadan: Cradle of Literati was a festival selection. At the festival was an intimidating congregation ...

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Joe Adekwagh steps on Death, yesterday Thursday October 25, snatched one of our valuable staff and prolific artiste Joseph Terhemba Adekwagh. Adekwagh slumped while serving as masters of ceremonies at the 40th year on stage event of the veteran actor, poet and essayist Lari Williams. The actor of immense credit and show host died after attempt to revive him at a clinic in Surulere, where he was rushed to after he slumped failed. The Lari Williams event held at the Cinema Hall 1 of the National Theatre. Aged 44 having been born on February 18, 1963, Adekwagh is a native of Konshisha Local Government of Benue State. He was recruited in September 1989 as an artiste to form the nucleus of the then Hubert Ogunde led National Troupe of Nigeria. He continued as an artiste until in 1999 when his contract with the National Troupe lapsed. In 2001, Adekwagh was formally employed into the National Troupe this time as a tenure staff. He was designated Assistant Stage Manager but he was always avai...

captions: 1. Renate with jahman at one of the events at Goethe. There ws always plenty to eat and drink, and lots of cookies to take home after the event. 2. Yemoja.. the play on tor whe i learnt of Renate's death in 2001. Ogun is second from right 3. Renate, Bisade Ologunde (producer of Lagbaja) and jahman 1n 1992... shortly after Ologunde jammed with a visiting jazz band RE-NA-TE: The one that drew my tears I was on a performance tour of Mexico, where the National Troupe was representing Africa at the Cervantino Festival of World Theatre when the news stole in on me and upstaged my joy. ‘Renate is dead!’ It came like the evil wind. It swept me to nothingness. A momentary trip to blandness. In a sense it was my own ceasing of being; even if momentarily. My head was heavy. My feet will not shift. I was rooted, yet there was a sudden rush of motion in my soul. It was watery; bloodily watery threatening to burst me open… I let out… screeeeeeeeaaaam! Then sank into the seat, sen...

1) JAHMAN ANIKULAPO, AFTER HAVING BEEN CHIEF EDITOR OF THE CULTURE PART OF THE GUARDIAN, YOU ARE NOW CHIEF EDITOR OF "LIFE", THE GUARDIAN MAGAZINE DELIVERED FREE WITH THE NEWSPAPER ON THE WEEK-END AS IT IS OFTEN THE CASE IN THE ANGLOPHONE COUNTRIES. DOES THIS EVOLUTION OPEN YOUR FIELD AND YOUR POSSIBILITIES OF PUBLISHING CONTENTS YOU LIKE ? JAHMAN: Thanks Olivier. You are indeed right. I was Arts, Culture and Media reporter for The Guardian (Daily) for 15 years (12 years as Editor); and in that period my area of influence was concentrated on matters relating to the arts in all its ramifications - Literature, Visual Arts, Music, Film, Theatre, Media, as well as culture-related subjects including the museum, language etc. In 2003, I moved over to edit the Sunday edition of The Guardian, and one of the innovations we brought in to increase the reach of the paper was the idea of a weekly magazine that would be devoted to creating a new class of readership - aside from the conser...