Tag Archives: Martins Iwuagwu

Lola Shoneyin’s salacious story of polygamy, sexual politics and family power struggles is on stage across 3 Lagos theatres. With previously well received performances from Abeokuta to London, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives delves in to the lives of the well-heeled household of Baba Segi, his 3 wives and their 7 children. His […]

Today’s sequel to a first twitter conversation moderated by blog and online community TheNakedConvos (TNC hereafter) which included another cast member from Bode Asiyanbi‘s Shattered stage play Bola Haastrup (@bolahaastrup on Twitter) can be found below and was constructed around this story. Enjoy the story and the twitter conversation around it but please #breakthesilence and get involved. Contribute […]

October 10, 2015 marked the start of something special. Buoyed by the indomitable industry of TheNakedConvos – one of Nigeria’s foremost communities where frank conversations around adulthood, relationships and sexuality can be had – we began the march to #breakthesilence on sexual violence and rape. This was a collaboration unwittingly seeded by the original decision […]

#NigerianTheatre is experiencing a resurgence now and in no other month is this more evident than in October where there is a strong line-up of original plays celebrating Nigeria’s diversity, her history, her diversity and her coming-of-age. Bode Asiyanbi‘s Shattered which is one in Nigerian theatre’s OctoberFest, as we’re dubbing this month’s collection of stage […]