“The Other Room"

Creatives, Stories 21/10/2016 by Iorliam’Amo Shija

“The Other Room”

In the other room Hardened men become beggars The queen, becomes the king too The king, just a beggarly page In the other room We cry for joy Beg to be injured For there, we enjoy pain In the other room We beg to suck milkless breasts Accept every proposal And promise any thing In the other room Fate of […]

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Creatives, Stories 9/04/2013 by Akaafele

The importance of being ‘innocent’; 2face Idibia

Do we really know how integral 2face Idibia is to New Nigerian music? Better still: Does 2face Idibia realise what he is and what he has done? Yes, he’s the nation’s, and possibly the continent’s, biggest pop star. Yes he’s perhaps the most humble musician you will come across in a long while. Yes, no Nigerian singer straddles pop, soul, […]

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Creatives, Stories 26/03/2013 by Akaafele

Music as a source of peaceful co-existence

“Music is an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color” – English Dictionary Today, music has become a source of comfort, happiness, inspiration, livelihood, national integration and above all, peaceful co-existence. Benue State is blessed with a lot of musical icons: Bongos Ikwue, Zaki Adzer, […]

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