LABAF 2019: A week of 52 engaging events with loads of lessons for the youths | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Therefore, attending festivals was not my thing because I thought there were better things to tackle with my time and attention.

The seven days’ art’s feast started on Monday, November 4 and ended on Sunday, November 10, 2019. In particular, the children and youth section, which started with the four-day CORA Youth Creative Club on Monday, November 4 at the Green Desert section of Freedom Park, was educative, empowering and inspiring. Young person desirous of growing up to be a resourceful person and an asset to society should not miss the event.

For every youth, who is confounded and keeps asking, “what can I do to make Nigeria better? How can I contribute my own quota?” Lagos Book & Art Festival is a carnival you should never miss. Freedom Park is a place you should never leave while reading is a culture you should never be lax about.

This featured reading, review and discussions around three books: Utopia for Realists and How we can get there by Rutger Bregman; Afonja: The Rise by Tunde Leye and We Were Eight Years In Office? by Ta-Nehi Coates. The session was moderated by Komolafe Kayode, Deputy Managing Director of ThisDay newspaper, and featured in the conversation, were culture critic, Kayode Faniyi, author Tunde Leye and literary activist, Kolawole Oluwadamilare.

Another colloquium on Saturday afternoon took on a more positive outlook, as it treated the theme ‘Breaking into the New,’ and featured discussions around two books: Entrepreneurship: the SLOT Ways by Nnamdi Ezeigbo and Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer – both looking at how sheer human determination and innovative thinking have helped bring nations out of darkness and economic stagnation.

Founded and coordinated by the lady fondly called Green Queen, Aunty Sola Alamutu, the Green Festival had children and students reading from books. Authored by mostly young people, about four of them as young as six years old. It was such a hope-giving programme as it shows that young Nigerian are also writing.

The visual arts segment continued on Tuesday, with presentation of a book on the art and career of Nsibidi sign and symbols adherent, Victor Ekpuk, edited by the famous professor of history, Toyin Falola, and presented by the renowned collector and art patron, Omooba Yemisi Shyllon. The gathering was qualitative and the discussion that heralded the presentation was enlightening about the artist’s works and artistic philosophy. And it featured such tested speakers as Dr.

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