He reincarnated in the form of a cream coloured, two-storey building in the bosom of the boulder-braided, writers’ commune, in the rocky delight of Abuja’s Mpape district. His happy host, like him an erstwhile member of the tribe of wordmongers was dispatched over a phantom putsch one decade before him. But he rolled out a carpet of dry laterite with …

The Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA), in partnership with the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), will host the maiden congress of the World Organisation of Writers (WOW) in Abuja, Nigeria. The congress, scheduled to hold from 4th to 6th April 2024, will convene writers from across the globe in the city of Abuja, at the ANA Writers Village located in the …

Renowned journalist, public scholar, author and poet, Dr. Tunde Olusunle has been listed for the conferment of the Fellowship of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). This was contained in the  congratulatory letter to Olusunle, signed by General Secretary of the association, Maik Ortserga. According to Ortserga, the conferment ceremony will coincide with the 42nd edition of ANA’s International Convention, …

At one of the earliest editions of the reinvented Mbari Series, perhaps the inaugural, I suggested that we should endeavour to help purposely grow the library of Association of Nigerian Authors, (ANA), by donating books and similar resource materials. My idea is that writers who are already published for instance, should avail the burgeoning library of our publications. I should …

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 …

The first single from multiple award-winning poet Chijioke Amu-Nnadi’s new album, everything beautiful will be released on Easter Sunday, 17th April. The song, titled amazing, was created from the author’s poem of the same title in his fourth book, a river’s journey (published in 2016) and is performed with Pamela Scott. Amu-Nnadi’s awards included the prestigious Glenna Luschei African Poetry Book …