Ibadan: Nigeria’s renascent art, culture and intellectual hub, By Tunde Adegbola premiumtimesng.com/opinion/575019…

Save Classics at Turku! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/c6246Y4b via Change.orgNigeria

The idea of ‘precolonial Africa’ is vacuous and wrong – aeon.co/essays/the-ide… via Aeon Magazine

Please do spread the word - #Treasures of #Cyprus this Saturday @channel4 - with moving and amazing #archaeology #discoveries ⁦Theo Paphitis 🇺🇦⁩

Ooh, this new edition of Sappho arrived today from Cambridge University Press - Academic. Please note I'm celebrating by having slightly wet hair. Really interested (and impressed) to see this note at the beginning about the 2014 papyri (the 'Brothers' poem)

🗣 “I’m not a Classics Stalinist – I don’t want to force every child in the country to learn Latin – but I do want to democratise Classics.” Hear from mary beard on Gladiator, “jolly good” furious arguments, a less-than-quiet-retirement, and a new set of films 👇 Classics@Cambridge

⭐️ MONDAY 6 March: #RitaDove in conversation with Helene Foley: watch award-winning poet & essayist discuss her collection #MotherLove and #myth of #Demeter & #Persephone. Pre-recorded interview premieres on APGRD YouTube channel at 2pm GMT #ClassicsTwitter #poetrytwitter

Some students see classics as outdated, immaterial in modern world –UI prof punchng.com/some-students-…

Petition To Stop Hospitals from demanding "Police Report" before treating patients. - Sign the Petition! chng.it/hW5q9sbP via Change.orgNigeria

Save Our Green Spaces - Help Protect Our Parks! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Q7HWNHJ5 via Change.orgNigeria

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Public lecture

"Classics Beyond Borders", a programme which is part of the GHI, is organising an event at Classics@Cambridge with Prof Olasope, Olakunbi Olasope and Prof Osofisan from University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Cambridge University - School of Arts & Humanities More info here: classics.cam.ac.uk/events/localiz…

Vice President Kashim Shettima has restated the Federal Government’s unwavering resolve to reposition Nigeria’s education sector. Specifically, he affirmed that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will mobilise both public and private sector support to uplift institutions