The Crown Troupe of Africa, one of the country's leading dance companies will perform on the Second Sunday of every month in 2006 at Terra Kulture, Tiamiyu Savage Street, Victoria Island.
February's performance will be on the 12th and dance titles for the month include Fall of a King and Phellow Countrymen. Tickets will cost N1000 each

Victoria the bride, and Ivy, friends for more than a decade... A Lagos Wedding-December 2005 

The King is dead. Long live the King. Femi Anikulapo-Kuti, an international award-winning Afro-beat singer in his own right, and son of the legendary Fela, does his thing at the new African Shrine.  

Morounke (Bukky Sanu), left, and Ishola (Seun Kentebe) break down the facts in Wole Soyinka's Camwood on the Leaves as directed by Wole Oguntokun at the Muson Centre on Friday the 30th of December 2005. Camwood was presented as part of the legend series, an initiative started by Oguntokun in 2004 wherein evergreen plays by some of Nigeria's best are presented at one of the most prestigious Art venues in the country 

JAMES EVERSHED AGATE (1877-1947)

Dined last night with an old manchester friend and he vouches for the authenticity of this letter from a native of Lagos to the owners of the vessel which he was helping to load:

Sir,

My statement to you about my speech to my lawyer when he came to demand as per legal orders the sum of 50 pounds for my poor damaged body by falling in company's lighter while doing my honest due on account of which I might have gone to heaven that day. Praise the Lord I did not go.

But, Sir, when you said to my legal adviser:

1st that I was drunken

2nd that cause of drunkeness was stealing gin from lighter.

Well, Sir, those two speeches, 1st and 2nd proved that you are a son of the father of lies i.e. Devil because said gin had been freely drunk at 8am prompt. I fell headlong into lighter at 11am prompt. AT 11am gin had passed through body, so cause of top-heaviness had finished. Therefore you are the very first born of the father of lies, to wit the Devil. Because 2nd charge of stealing gin is libel. Beware Sir,do not take away my poor character beside thousand pounds are often lost legal by libel, as legals cost plenty money.

Now Sir, for God's sake try and sign for 50 pounds for damage to poor frame of mortality as follows:

Fell down in lighter on tons of metal

One head splitten

One nose useless (very grave)

One shoulder broken (blood extracted)

One arm bent (blood ditto)

One thick leg dashed (ditto ditto)

One private member damaged (slightly bent)

One leg half broken (blood freely)

General conditions (breakings, dashings-all blood freely etc)

Now Sir, this hurts are cheap at 50 pounds...I will come for book re 50 pounds to morning, meantime may God watch and protect your slumbers tonight so as to keep you safe till morning and I get my 50 pounds

-Yesufu Illorin

Ibrahim and Bukky (kneeling for prayers) at their traditional wedding on Saturday the 14th of January. In dark glasses, backing the camera is the bride's mum. The formal "English" wedding took place a couple of hours after this. I was the Master of Ceremonies for the reception that held after. I'd promised myself it would be my last MC stuff at a wedding except for my cousin, Bomi's, but I must say I enjoyed myself at this one, a great deal. "let the journey begin"

Old house at the country-side in Ikenne, Nigeria.