"A reading nation is a leading nation" - Eugenia Abu
Following closely on the heels of the carnival like public presentation of her debut poetry collection, “Dont Look At Me Like That”, high-profile television broadcaster, Eugenia Abu recently kick-started the 2010 literary season of the Abuja Writers Forum(AWF), with an appearance at the popular Guest Writer Session. Soon after the event which attracted a lot of literary enthusiasts in Abuja, Emman Usman Shehu and Elnathan John, got Mrs Abu to ...Read More

"I Like Happy Endings" - Nats Onoja Agbo
He is something of an adept juggler. However his juggling skills are not for a circus show, rather he deploys them in the area of writing being at ease as a journalist, creative writer and now a biographer. Nats Onoja Agbo is involved with a couple of news magazines, has two novel manuscripts up for publication and has just completed a biography on Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki. On the eve of Agbo’s appearance at the November 28 Guest Writer Session ...Read More

"Poetry is my engagement with the world" - Patricia Keeney
Canadian University professor and writer, Patricia Keeney, visited Nigeria recently and featured in the June 27 edition of the Guest Writer Session, an initiative of the Abuja Writers Forum which has been daubed as curently the most consistent literary event in Nigeria. In this interview with TUNJI AJIBADE, a consultant writer, she shared her views about her writing, travels and literature in general ...Read More

“I SEE THE WORLD IN PICTURES ”- Alkali
Fatima Ba'aram Alkali,a law lecturer at the University of Abuja recently published her debut novel Personal Angle. She has an interesting background, starting with her parentage. Her father is the historian, Professor Nura Alkali, while her mother and literature teacher and writer of ‘The Stillborn’, Professor Zaynab Alkali, Deputy Vice Chancellor Nasarawa State University.. Ahead of her appearance at the September 26 edition of Abuja Writer’s ...Read More

Nigerian Literature Is Popular In The U.S. - Barbara Jones
Dr Barbara Jones, an international library consultant was in the country recently at the auspices of the United States Embassy. She was also a resource person at the July 25 workshop organised by the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF) where she talked about grants and residencies for writers. In this interview with TUNJI AJIBADE, Jones bares her mind on some issues especially about Nigerian literature in America and how writers could be better at what ...Read More