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Post by Shymmex on Jan 6, 2016 17:27:00 GMT
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 6, 2016 17:30:29 GMT
Tafawa Balewa SquareNamed for Nigeria's first prime minister, this is Lagos' commercial heart and has some remarkable monuments. They include statues of gargantuan horses, the Remembrance Arcade (with memorials to WWI, WWII and civil-war victims) and the 26-storey Independence House, built in 1963.  
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 6, 2016 17:35:38 GMT
Kalakuta Republic MuseumLegendary musician Fela Kuti's former house and revolutionary headquarters is now a fascinating museum with everything intact from Fela's bedroom to his underwear. Breath deep and you may even catch a high. The home of the late Afrobeat Legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti which has now been turned into a museum was opened to the public at an inauguration ceremony in Lagos yesterday. Although the museum is not yet complete, his family wanted it to be opened on October 15, which would have been his 74th birthday. The date also marks the beginning of Felabration, a weeklong series of festivities to celebrate a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician, human activist, tourism stakeholder and political maverick.   
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 6, 2016 17:41:12 GMT
Nike Art GalleryOne of Nigeria's most important artists, Nike Davies-Okundaye, runs this enormous gallery full of contemporary and traditional Nigerian arts. Nike herself is practically an incarnation of love and beauty, which is reflected in this astonishing four-storey space. If you're lucky she'll be there and may grace you with a new Yoruba name. Cultural tours to other Yoruba towns can be arranged through the gallery. Artist and Designer Nike Davies Okundaye invites you to visit her Nigeria, an ancient culture that thrives in modern cities, a world that moves easily between talking drums and the internet. Nike has given workshops on traditional Nigerian textiles to audiences in the US and Europe during the past 20 years. While she is known for her colorful batik and paintings that offers a modernist gloss on traditional themes, she was brought up amidst the traditional weaving and dying practiced in her native village of Ogidi in Western Nigeria. Her fame as an artist and teacher has taken her all over the globe. Now, she invites you to visit her in Nigeria and immerse yourself in African tradition.   
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