Category / Art / Book Review

Loading posts...

Book Review: Who Owns Truth| All My Lies Are True

The announcement that “The Ice Cream Girls” was getting a sequel, made me physically squeal, partly because Dorothy Koomson has been famously anti-sequel but also because I, naively, hoped for the perfect…

9. July 2020

Book Review
Saturn in Aquarius 2020 transit — A prediction

The Age of Enlightenment meaning a lot of us will begin to see the bigger picture of things as illusions around us begin to break. Truths will be revealed and clarity will take over. People will ascend to become more evolved humans as they wake up from this Matrix. It’s always been a game and now it’s to play it right.

21. April 2020

Art
Art as Resistance: Reflections on Built of Past in Present exhibition

In October this year, I had the pleasure of attending Built of Past in the Present: an exhibition curated by poet, producer and curator Aliyah Hasinah. It featured the works of multimedia…

20. December 2019

Art
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Review

This historical fiction – the story of an American FBI agent’s affair with Thomas Sankara, deposed President of Burkina Faso, 1983 – 1987, is an interesting reimagination of the life of a…

9. July 2019

Art, Book Review
Nights of the Creaking Bed Review

My relationship with the short as a narrative format is complex as at times I find myself amazed by the writer’s ability to, in a short space, tell a compelling story and…

2. July 2019

Book Review, fiction
Good Dog Review

By : Niki Igbaroola It takes a great deal of skill to stand on stage, solely using your voice and body to tell a story for the better part of two and…

15. March 2019

Art
The religion of self-love

Loving myself was one of the most spiritual things I have ever done. When you are dark skinned, Black and woman love does not come to you easily. So I had to…

4. March 2019

Art, non-fiction, Visual stories
Healing Circle Launch: Using Rage for Constructive Healing as we sit and have tea with our unfelt low emotions

We are souls having a human experience. It is time to manifest a laser focus on our collective healing from all the unfelt emotions that as blocked and create a disassociation with…

4. February 2019

Art
The Global Black Revolution is Still but a Dream

A critical look at the expectations and unfortunate realities that Marvel’s Black Panther Film has forced us to grapple with. By: Niki Igbaroola Having seen the much anticipated, much loved, box-office…

5. March 2018

Art
Full Moon Gemini 3/12

By: Tiara Kelly A Manual on How to Move Through this Moon Phase and Mercury Retrograde December 2-22 **shadow phase until Jan 11** Gemini moon will have you wanting to be a…

3. December 2017

Art
Highlife Soldiers: A West African Visual Commentary

By: Labet Highlife Soldiers enters another chapter in artist Labet’s journey and unfolds an exciting new body of work. Showcasing paintings colourfully inspired by the highlife music genre, this exhibition comes together as…

27. November 2017

Art, Visual stories
For Us By Us: Women of The Lens Film Festival

By: Niki Igbaroola A Recap of the Inaugural Women of the Lens Film Digital Broadcast Festival Lately, conversation around film, cinema and the industry have been centered around men and their inability…

23. November 2017

Art
Roses for Grace Jones: In Celebration of a Cultural Icon

By: Niki Igbaroola A Review of Sophie Fennes’ Documentary Bloodlight and Bami There is something in the way Fennes chose to shoot this documentary that melded perfectly, with Jones’ enigmatic nature. The…

8. November 2017

Art
Brown Bodies

by: Mica Hamilton I wanted your brown body To find my brown body I dreamt of your brown body Before I became enough cells to dream I saw our…

3. August 2017

Poem
Stills in Solidarity – A visual story that explores the intimacy among girls and women.

The photos shared were captured during my photo walk/ exploration sessions in Nigeria and a photo shoot I was commissioned to do for a clients birthday. Irrespective of the situation, there is…

27. July 2017

Photojournalism
Five things to do in Seattle

By: Wonuola Lawal 1. Attend a baseball game: I saw a baseball match between the Seattle.Mariners and the Philadelphia Phillies. I was rooting for Philadelphia because I’d stayed in Philly for nine…

16. July 2017

Photojournalism
Berlin for Queer and Queens

By: Adeola Naomi As a grandchild of a WW2 veteran, I have learned to associate Berlin exclusively with war and terror from stories I heard from my grandfather. In these crazy days of…

9. July 2017

Photojournalism
Visiting Eritrea: A Journey to the Birthplace of my Parents

By: Helen Woldu I had just ended a loving and healthy relationship and I needed to leave Los Angeles. I contemplated whether I should go to Eritrea for I feared for my…

5. July 2017

Photojournalism