A TRIBUTE TO BECKLY IKE JONES, NIGERIAN-BORN GUITAR VIRTUOSO AND MUSICIAN EXTRAORDINAIRE
BY EMMANUEL I. AKPAKA 1973. A starlit night in Onikan stadium, Lagos. Osibisa, the London-based Afro-rock sultans had come to...
FROM CHINA WITH LOVE!
By Emmanuel Ita Akpaka China may have pissed on its own parade with its worrisome handling of the COVID 19...
A SEASON OF MASQURADES: THE NEW MASQURADES HAVE COME TO TOWN!
By Emmanuel Ita Akpaka IF YOU HAVE WATCHED ‘SPECTRE’, the 24th iteration of the box-office-smashing James Bond 007 movie franchise...
THE NATURE OF OUR GAME
Hi folks! Pleased to welcome you to MATAKAPRO LIVE! However, before we get down to brass-tacks, rethinks it is a...
A CREATIVE POWERHOUSE CALLED MATAKA PRODUCTIONS
My production company is called Mataka Productions which I founded in 1978. I have always been intrigued by the publishing...
MUSIC MASTER
Music Master was my first venture into the publishing industry. It was actually a no brainer that the first magazine...
ME, SHOWBUISNESS AND MUSIC PUNDITRY
Truth is, I have always been a music aficionado. I vividly remember in my primary school days, my siblings and...
KALIMBO ISLAND, A HARRY POTTER FOR ADULTS?
Already, there are not a few pundits who believe that KALIMBO ISLAND when eventually made into a movie could out-panther...
WRITING “KALIMBO ISLAND”
Emmanuel Ita Akpaka began writing Kalimbo Island in mid-2003 and completed the work in mid-2004, working mostly nights. It was...
THE LONELY ROAD TO KALIMBO ISLAND
Emmanuel Ita Akpaka has been writing serious fiction since his teenaged years. He is a natural, a dyed-in-the-wool creative writer...