Lectures

KITCHEN TIPS From Africa

1. Never store Onions and Potatoes together because both produce a gas that causes either of them to spoil quickly.

2. Put two or three orange leaves in your hot palm oil on the fire. Let the leaves turn black before removing it. By then your palm oil becomes pure groundnut oil also giving your food a nice taste.

3. To avoid feeling a peppering hotness on your hands after cutting pepper with bare hand scrub your hand with salt and red oil then wash it.

4. If you happen to over salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt.

5. If your Soup or Stew goes sour while warming it, add little piece of Charcoal and remove after warming, the taste will come back.

6. Never put citrus fruits (oranges, lemon, lime, etc) or tomatoes in the fridge. The low temperature degrades the aroma and flavor of these fruits.

7. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky.

8. If your salt is becoming lumpy, put a few grains of rice in with it to absorb excess moisture.

9. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, cook a 1/4" piece of ginger in the oil. It will remove any remaining flavors and odors.
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Contemporary works at Alexis

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Urban Lagos Nigeria is the largest, most dense and expensive Nigerian city, The city has so many creative young folks who need artistic space for reading, meetings, photo shoot and various artistic engagement, however, the high cost of such space for hire usually impede their effort and interest.

L - Hub project therefore, is a studio space project that meant to ameliorate the challenge of artistic space for up-coming creatives within Ikeja suburb of Lagos at affordable fees.
The space would also be a hub for mentor ship.

Presently, the need Space is undergoing renovation to make it conductive.

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The Artists Social Forum led by Pa Fasuyi announces the celebration of d birthdays of Artists born in the months of January & February using Kolade Oshinowo, Olu Amoda, Jossy Ajiboye, Dr. Abiodun Kafaru, Abass Kelani as reference point. Date:Sun March 4, 2018 Time:4 - 6.30pm,
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J. A. GREEN NIGERIA’S FIRST INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHER

FINALLY IN THE LIMELIGHT

Jonathan Adagogo Green (J. A. Green) now recognized as Nigeria’s first

indigenous professional photographer, was born in Bonny (now in Rivers State,

Nigeria) in 1873.

He studied photography in Sierre Leonne and then established a studio in Bonny

and became one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers

to be active in West Africa.

Green whose identity remained hidden behind his English surname maintained a

photography business in Bonny and worked mostly in the Niger Delta and its

environs. His work covered a wide range of themes including portraiture of the

British colonial officials, European merchants and, prominent chiefs and elites and

their families, particularly in Bonny, Kalabari, Opobo and Okrika.

He also photographed scenes of daily and ritual life including women making

handicrafts, iron workers and weddings; as well as commerce and buildings; both

administrative and religious.

Some of his great iconic photographs; such as that of Oba Ovonramwen in 1897,

the British hulk and war canoes were published in prestigious newspapers and

magazines like the London Illustrated News and other European publications.



And although his photographs were published in England and Europe to much

acclaim, Green himself remained anonymous for more than a century and

according to Anderson and Aronson, he was ‘an African photographer hiding in

plain sight’.

Thankfully, Jonathan Adagogo Green has finally and firmly come into much-

deserved limelight with the publication of the book AFRICAN

PHOTOGRAPHER J. A. GREEN (Reimagining the Indigenous and the

Colonial) by the Indiana University Press U.S.A. in 2017.

The editors of this book on Green; Professors Martha G. Anderson and Lisa

Aronson and the contributors, Emeritus Professor E.J. Alagoa, Tam Fiofori and

Christraud M. Geary, have in this book uncovered 350 of Green’s images in

archives (in Britain and the U.S.A.) publications and even private albums in

Nigeria and abroad that celebrate the indigenous and the colonial during Green’s

career as a professional photographer.

This landmark book unifies these dispersed photographic images of Jonathan

Adagogo Green and presents a history of the photographer and the area and times

in which he worked.

AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER J.A. GREEN (Reimagining the Indigenous

and the Colonial) will be publicly presented and launched on Thursday 1

st

March,

2018 at 11am, at the Royal Banquet Hall, Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt, Rivers

State at a ceremony organized by Onyoma Research.

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