At Ake Festival, creatives convene to reclaim truth in an era of outright lies, misinformation
The 2025 Ake Arts and Book Festival, the 13th edition of the festival, held at the BON Hotel in Ikeja, Lagos, from November 20-22, opened with an urgent and timely theme: ‘Reclaiming Truth’. Over three days, writers, artists, thinkers, and lovers of art and culture gathered to interrogate narratives, challenge misinformation, and celebrate the power […]
Ake Festival: Onakoya, Shoneyin, and Onimole speak about children who refuse to be invisible
On a rainy Friday afternoon, inside one of the halls of BON Hotel, Ikeja GRA in Lagos, one of the panel sessions of the 13th edition of the three-day Ake Arts and Book Festival 2025 (theme ‘Reclaiming Truth’), which stretched beyond literature, was titled ‘Tunde Onakoya The Chess Champion’. The panel was moderated by Kenyan-based […]
How FinTribe, with over $4 million investment fund, is leading Nigerian women into financial freedom
Savings and investments have many definitions, many of which are theoretical, more like what professors pontificate from their lecterns. But, how do you make ordinary women, especially low-income-earning women, who do not understand or trust the financial and cooperative systems, save their hard-earned money over a long period of time? Last Saturday, October 25, in […]