Ladun Ogidan is the Deputy Editor of Omenka Africa’s first art, business and luxury- lifestyle magazine. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication from Covenant University, Nigeria. Ogidan is also Operations Manager at the Omenka Gallery, and Chief Operating Officer at Revilo Company Limited, a leading art publishing company in Lagos. She has co-ordinated several exhibitions at home and abroad.
Tamlin Blake’s monumental tapestry installation is akin to a Renaissance fresco in its magnitude of scale, the sweeping drama of its thematic conception and the brilliance of its detail. Through...
Renowned revolutionary painter Ibrahim El-Salahi was born on September 5, 1930, in Omdurman, Sudan, to a Muslim family, and is arguably one of the most important figures in Arab-African Modernism....
After picking up the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Chinonye Chukwu’s death row drama Clemency is well on its way to a busy fall season. That means not...
Nigerian English American actor and producer David Oyelowo is in final negotiations to join George Clooney in Netflix’s untitled adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight. Felicity Jones and Kyle Chandler are...
Layori Dada has always been passionate about fashion, music, and the creative arts. She has found a way to express herself through the Layori Collection, her clothing line, as well...
From the Lascaux cave drawings to the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as Michelangelo’s David to the pyramids of Egypt, throughout the history of human creation, large-scale creations have always been fascinating. It...
In recent times, African art has experienced unprecedented growth with the establishment of art fairs focused on art from the continent such as AKAA (Also Known As Africa) and 1:54 Contemporary...
Artist, poet, researcher, and inventor Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, also known as Cheik Nadro, was born in 1923 in Zépréguhé, Ivory Coast, and was among the first Ivorians educated by the...
Chef Isie is the founder/head chef at Chowstation. In this interview with Omenka, he discusses his culinary inspiration, as well as the decisions that led to becoming a professional chef. You...
Since inception in 2003, Stevenson gallery has morphed from Michael Stevenson to Brodie Stevenson, and now has two galleries in Cape Town and Johannesburg that focus on the work of...