Artmosphere's City of Words

Artmosphere, a monthly poetry, music and arts events will play host to Hyginus Ekwazi, Ayo Olofintuade, Babatunde Ogunseinde and Dtone in its march edition. The march edition according to the organisers "is a special" tagged City of Words (A tribute to the City (Ibadan) that has produced so many literary giants and the intellectual headquarters of Nigeria).

City of Words is slated for the 31st of March 2012, at Cafe Chrysalis, 23 Ilaro Street, Old Bodija(Behind 411 Club), Ibadan. Hyginus Ekwazi is scholar at the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. He is a film critic and the author of the Award winning children novella,I Have Miles to Walk Before I Sleep, winner of the ANA Cadbury Prize 2010.He has won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry prize with almost all of his four poetry collectionsDr. Ekwuazi’s poetry collections are Love Apart (2007); Dawn into Moonlight (2008); The Monkey’s Eyes (2009); and That Other Country (2010). He is a famous critic of the Nollywood Movie Industry.Hyginus was also managing at the Nigerian Film Coporation in 1998. He has also written innumerable papers on the Nigerian and African film, one of such is in the Africa Media Review Vol. 5 No. 2.1991 ©African Council for Communication Education Towards the Decolonization of the African Film by Hyginus Ekwuazi* Ayodele Olofintuade is one of Nigeria's creative writers. She is the author of Eno's Story, a children's story book that was shortlisted for the NNLG Prize for Fiction in 2011. She is also a creative Writing teacher, an editor and a reviewer at the Daily Times NG. Ayodele has several works in progress one of which is a sci-fi novel. Dtone Martins is an alternative and Jazz artiste ( A live Performing Artiste) who has been in the music scene for sometime now. He is referred to in some Lagos circles as the progenitor of modern love songs spiced with tradition. Babatunde Ogunseinde is an alternative music act who has performed in different literary events across the country. He has also perfromed alongside Beautiful Nubia, an afrocentric music icon who is also a poet. Babatunde usually brings back nostalgic feelings with his music. Both passionate and energetic music acts will be at Artmosphere, this month. Spoken word Poets, Servio Gbadamosi and Femi Fairchild Morgan will be the anchors of the event.