Multiple award-winning academic, Prof. Al-Bishak honoured on Thursday by the NSUK Health Services Multipurpose Cooperative Society (NHSMCS) Limited. The founding President of NHSMCS Limited, Mallam Al-Bishak received an award and commendation letter for his ‘numerous achievements and milestones accomplished during your tenure as President (2009-2012)’. As the founding President of the NHSMCS Limited, Al-Bishak registered it as a co-operative society …

Mr. Bizuum Yadok’s thought-provoking and incisive essay, In Defense of Leoparditude has won the 2024 E. E. Sule/SEVHAGE Prize for African Literary Criticism just announced by the organisers. The award is jointly endowed by Professor E. E. Sule, a Commonwealth Award-winning creative writer, and SEVHAGE, a Makurdi-based publisher, and also a literary Award-winner. Yadok is a doctorate degree student at …

The staff of the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State, have recently given a rousing reception in honor of its outgoing Sabbatical staff, Professor Al-Bishak. Al-Bishak, who is an academic staff of the same department at the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, was commended by the staff of the Lokoja varsity for his “scholarly …

A committed scholar is identifiable by his uncanny passion for fulfilling Robert Frost’s vision of “taking the road less travelled” in the field of his academic endeavour by breaking fresh grounds and creating new pathways to uncommon knowledge. Professor Al-Bishak, a brilliant, academic iconoclast and literary Egyptologist, fits into this mould. He chose for his doctorate degree dissertation a daunting …

African Literature scholar, Prof. Al-Bishak, who is a sabbatical staff at the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL), Kogi State, from the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, has endowed an annual prize of N50,000 for FUL, in honour of its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olayemi Akinwumi. At the event on Monday in the university premises in Lokoja, Prof. Aito Ofure supported the …

A Professor of African Literature, Al-Bishak, who released his latest work, Black Papyrus: Global Origins of Writing and Written Literature Traced to Black Africa“, has continued to expand the readership reach of the book by making presentations to leading players in the literary world. Last December, the lecturer with the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, presented the 50-year researched book …

A Professor of African Literature, Al-Bishak has authored another book. The latest work of the lecturer with the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, Black Papyrus: Global Origins of Writing and Written Literature Traced to Black Africa“, was presented to the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Shehu Abdul Rahman in Lafia last Tuesday. According to the author, it is a …