Dubbed "Africa's biggest Culture Picnic", LABAF is an art festival with a heavy book content and is a testament to the commitment of CORA that the only way to translate the ‘teeming' population of Nigeria into a true human resource is to develop their mind. It is an international event with participants drawn from scholars, writers, artists and journalists from all over the world. The Lagos Book and Art Festival is an advocacy idea; we are promoting the idea of people reading books; gaining know

Toyin Akinosho, Publisher of Africa Oil & Gas Report and Secretary General of the CORA Art & Cultural Foundation has announced the dates for the 14th Lagos Book & Art Festival. The festival would hold from the 16th - 18th November 2012 at Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos Island with a pre-event Publishers' Forum and Cocktail holding on the 15th. A theme has also been announced for the Festival: The Narrative of Conflict-which focuses on how the written word and the literacy it engenders interrogates the different conflicts that surround our current existence and recent past. The festival is dedicated to the veteran artist Bruce Onabrakpeyawho turned 80 this year and whose work and dedication to the arts continue to be a source of inspiration to generations of Nigerians.