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Halima Sekula Takes Her Tales To Abuja
By Abdullahi Abubakar
Following in the wake of Eugenia Abu successfully kick-starting the First Quarter of the 2010 Literary Season of the Abuja Writers Forum, Halima Sekula takes her turn on February 27, at the Pen and Pages Bookstore, venue of the acclaimed Guest Writer Session. Dr Sekula, an emerging female voice from the North, is the author of Honour Among Thieves (Drama), Tongues of Flame (Poetry), and The Waiting Place (Short stories).
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When I was in-house with Chimamanda Adichie
The 2009 edition of the creative writing workshop organized by Farafina Trust, a brainchild of Nigeria’s award-winning author, Chimamanda Adichie, came to a close recently. In this article, TUNJI AJIBADE, who was one of the participants tells of his experience.
As I strike the keyboard of my computer for this, I wonder what point of view I should use. The newspaper version of my report of the creative writing workshop organized by Nigeria ’s Chimamanda Adichie in which I wrote as if I was not involved appeared a bit stiff to me.
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Alkali Kicks-off Last Quarter
The last quarter segment of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s Guest Writer Session kicks-off on September 26, with an emerging writer from the North Eastern part of Nigeria, Fatima-Ba’aram Alkali. Author of the debut novel, Personal Angle, Ms Alkali who describes writing as a hobby, is currently a law lecturer at the University of Abuja
She is the daughter of Zaynab Alkali, a renowned novelist from Northern Nigeria and a deputy vice chancellor at the Nassarawa State University. Her father is Muhammad Nur Alkali, a Professor of history.
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Face To Face With Gabriel Okara
By Kuni Tyessi
There he was, the octogenarian whose works I was introduced to some years ago. The introduction to his works was one of my baptism in the famous world of literature. I remember so well that as a student, I needed to cram some of his lines in order to buttress my points, convince my teacher and gain more marks. His famous works, Piano and Drums, Fisherman's Invocation, and The Call of the River Nun, happen to be my favourite. Love for the three made understanding and explaining them a delight.
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AWF Hosts Gabriel Okara
One of the elders of Nigerian literature, Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara, will top the bill for the August 29 edition of the Guest Writer Session hosted by the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF). The 88-year-old Bayelsan who has recently been inducted as an honorary fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters(NAL) will read from a cross-section of his works including some new material.
Gabriel Okara is generally regarded as the first significant English-language black African poet, the first African poet to write in a modern style, and the first Nigerian writer to publish in and join the editorial staff of the influential literary journal Black Orpheus (started in 1957). A Nigerian "Negritudist," he is also seen as a link between colonial poetry and the vigorous modernist writing that began to appear in Nigeria around the time of national independence in 1960.
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 NLNG RELEASES POETRY LONG LIST
A long list of the 2009 edition of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) sponsored Nigeria Literature prize has been announced. This year's genre is poetry and the longlist has the following titles:
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT...
Fame trails Abubakar Gimba like a shadow. He stole the show at a recent reading session of the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF), writes Tunji Ajibade
What was meant to be a reading session but even before the event got halfway through, it transformed into an evening of acclamation. The flurry of activities that began at 10:30am on July 25 with the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s (AWF) creative writing workshop ended at 6:30 pm with the Guest Writer Session, as one of Nigeria’s less publicized literary heavyweights - Alhaji Abubakar Gimba, OFR, basked in the spotlight of eulogies.
The workshop in the morning soon after the monthly environmental exercise in Abuja had witnessed a full house at the banquet hall of Top Rank Hotel, and the Guest Writer Session that began at 4pm was no less so.
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Keeney, Barrett Raise The Stakes For Literary Fervour
Once again, writers in Abuja receive a boost in a remarkable Guest Writer Session of the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF). LEADERSHIP’s ONYINYE IHEZUKWU tries to grasp the wholesome experience in the story that follows.
Igoni Barrett and Patricia Keeney don’t come across to the everyday literary enthusiast as common place writers and poets. From different backgrounds and cultures, they have in common, dexterity with words, verse and imagery honed into super-fine brilliance through years of experience, hard work and sharing of knowledge.
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