Posted on February 16th, 2013 by Folarin Kolawole
Are you a travel blogger, writer, photographer or a regular travel enthusiast? Come mingle with us, exchange twitter handles and business cards to network with travellers from around the globe. Social Media Week Lagos is happening for the first time in Africa and is only a few days away. It is going to start [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2012 by Folarin Kolawole
A flood bath of jubilant sunrays inundates a creek of murky waters in the oil city of Port-Harcourt, southern Nigeria, as a thousand souls spectate at its bank. A war canoe pierces through the waters as its twenty paddlers bellow battle chants and songs with dramatic fervour. Like spears, their black-painted oars slice in and [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2012 by Folarin Kolawole
The challenges faced by mountain people have been and are, well, mountainous. The theme of this year’s International Mountain Day is exactly these challenges. Today is International Mountain Day 2012, and we are “Celebrating Mountain Life”. Mountains cover approximately one-quarter of the world’s surface and are home to one in ten of its people. [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2012 by Folarin Kolawole
Here comes CARNIRIV 2012, and it’s hitting the oil city of Port-Harcourt with a BIG BANG!! This year’s carnival kicked off on Sunday, December 9, 2012 with kid’s carnival and praise jam, with many more exciting events are lined up for the rest of the week. Please check out the schedule below and endeavour [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Folarin Kolawole
…Omo olókè tó mòkè ngùn “ A clear sky soars above the gently winding Akure-Idanre road, and the bright sun accentuates the brightly coloured jerseys of a hundred marathon athletes dotting the stretch between the two towns. It is Mare festival day 2, and the events had been kicked off by a marathon race from [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Folarin Kolawole
Mare Festival… …beginning of beautiful things in Idanre. Big clouds of smooth and dry dust coloured the skies of Methodist Grammar School, Idanre, in Ondo State. Sitting at the foot of the massive Ojimoba mountain, the ancient school is the venue of this year’s Mare Festival and the steep slopes of Ojimoba itself [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2011 by Folarin Kolawole
“Omi ooo,Eri ooo,Ota o oooo… Olómo yoyo…” Heavy footfalls rock the tarred road leading to the sacred Osun grove in Osogbo, south-western Nigeria. Engulfed in an aura of elation and anticipation, hundreds of worshippers clap and dance as they march behind Arugbá, Àdìgún Olósun and many Olósun priestesses, all clad in white apparels and [...]
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