As Nike descended from the staircase unto the ground floor of her spell-binding art gallery, she beamed with smiles and began to dance and sing, “A tí nretí rè o, káàbò sé dáadáa lo dé…” She was garbed in a beautiful deep blue Àdìre Ìró and Bùbá (shirt and robe of batik textile) and walked…
Published- ThisDay Newspapers, 19th Dec. 2010, p. 78. Temples smeared in crimson like blood on the Taj Mahal; eyelids swollen, eyes half-open; patches of blue and grey dotting the entire face- they were the colours of the Niger Delta. The oil painting made by Segun Aiyesan was the icon for the exhibition which was part…