It’s good to be back, beautiful people and lovers of the arts and creative industries.
Three good months have rolled by after we introduced this beautiful baby, your quarterly culture companion, to you through the preview edition in April.
Now, the actual maiden edition is out, focusing on the second quarter of this glorious year, 2025.
And so we ask, yet again: What did the culture, entertainment and the general creative space in Nigeria look like in the last three months, that is April to June 2025?
In this lovely edition, you will be reminded of all that went down in Q2 of 2025, culturally and artistically speaking. It is a beautiful package, which I’m super excited to serve you with.
The articles and reviews (and photographs) may not all be new or treating fresh subjects, given the focus of this publication, which is to afford you the opportunity to relive the good arty times of the last three months.
Stories about culture and the arts, as we know, are evergreen in nature.
They do not fade.
They hardly ever leave our consciousness. And as such they desire, perhaps, demand being retold, reappraised and relived!
This is why this publication is robustly a quarterly revisit of all of the juicy stories of the preceding quarter.
We are super proud and energised to have kept faith with the dream and vision of a quarterly report of the arts.
This maiden edition does justice to that vision in capturing the beautiful cultural landscape of the second quarter of this intriguing year – 2025 that is already filled with great vibes.
Our promise remains the same: this product will be a regular fiesta for the culture and for the entire creative space.
We are grateful for a number of people and institutions that have continued to partner with us in making this dream a reality.
We have introduced a new section – Tribute – to celebrate creatives who made a transition into eternal life in the Quarter under review. Our aim is to use that section to honour and celebrate such men and women whose labour of love for the arts should not be forgotten.
All the other sections are intact and refreshing, from the opening glee by Olayinka Akanbi, whose understanding of the cultural sectors and institutions are as remarkable as they are uplifting; to the beautiful focus on Ojude Oba festival (our cover story), both in Ijebu Ode and the one it inspired among the students of LASU.
Our stories do nothing but superbly delve into the heartbeat of Nigeria’s creative economy and its key players, capturing the very essence of why stories about culture must not stay forgotten.
As you may already know, dear readers and subscribers, only four editions of this publication will be unveiled every year, digitally and sometimes in print.
But they will remain an important contribution to cultural discourse on our website and on all our social media handles.
This, as I am fond of saying, is our modest effort at documenting what should never be forgotten in the culture and creative space.
Enjoy digital copy below.
