In the second episode of Culture Diaries, i chat with fellow poet Titilope Sonuga. I have often referred to her poetry as very visceral and picturesque. In recent times, she if fast becoming every girls favourite poet exploring themes that traverse everyday human emotions and that all so interesting transition from girlhood to womanhood. […]
A lot people have been asking about a new season of the television Airtel Touching Lives programme which i present on television. Well i am deeply pleased and honoured to share that we were renewed for a second season which premiered last week on network television and cable tv. It has been great to […]
So it has been almost three years since i had my photographs professionally taken except of course the photos i took for the Jumia plus size campaign. I decided it was time to retire those images considering a lot of complaints about seeing them a little too much. Well i figured a little facelift […]
Sometime late last year, i presented a two part radio documentary for BBC Radio4 titled ‘Writing a new Nigeria’. I had a great time interviewing and speaking with lots of poets and writers. It’s so unfortunate when making programmes that you have to become very shrewd with killing your darling. This means that lots […]
It’s no secret that we come from a seemingly conservative society but it is also quite secretive. I have been thinking a lot about how Nigerian women deal with pain, shame, grief, depression and everything else that we speak about in hush tones. For some reason the poem ‘The Darkness’ was born out of […]
As most people know i am quite passionate about art in all its forms and facets. To be honest passion doesn’t quite encapsulate the strength of emotion i feel for the arts but i suppose passion will suffice for now. Bukola Oye of The Sole Adventurer blog and i have decided to come together […]
Closing up the festival season this year is Ake Arts and Books festival.For those new to the world of Ake, it is the most anticipated cultural event of the year with all lovers of books and arts gathered in Abeokuta every November. This year’s bill is brimming with excitement as it features some of our […]
By Wana Udobang and Winnie Awa For many years I have been fascinated by Nnenna Okore’s art works; massive yet delicate installation pieces, at times fluid and floaty and at other times static and imposing. Watching the metaphors she conjures from woven and strewn together pages of paper making somewhat epic wall pieces have […]
Here is a new short film commissioned by Access bank’s Accelerate TV. It’s online channel. It was written by myself and directed by my frequent collaborator Imoh Umoren. It was the first time i got to write to a brief so was a new challenge for me which i thoroughly enjoyed. I hope you […]
By Wana Udobang A year ago at a time best known by the gender activism community as sixteen days of activism, I choose to flip the script a little. Sixteen days is set out towards creating awareness on sexual and gender based violence. So rather than my typical radio programmes dedicated to battered women, […]