Sat March 14:Lagos Writers hosts Segun Olusola on the Power of the Word

Dear Writer, As Ambassador Segun Olusola marks his 74th birthday on March 18, the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos celebrates with this Nigeria's great user of the spoken and the written words. Olusola, a theatre and television man,  the fist ANA Vice president to former President Chinua Achebe, author of Village Headmaster and Twenty Five years of Nigerian Broadcasting and other books on social and refugee matters,  frontline broadcaster and a pioneer refugee carer and champion will be the guest of the house. Very few Nigerians practice the capacity to lend a generously listening ear the way Chief Olusola does at any time. In his many years in broadcasting, Olusola who has prepared Nigerian heads of State for the camera, will be speaking on The Place and Power of the Spoken and Written Word. He would also be sharing with writters on how to present themselves before television cameras, and at public interviews. First Segment:                    - Readings and Responses to works in progress                      - Sharing Literary Experiences around      books and book events                                             - Book Presentations of new works Second Segment:                        Guest of the House:                     Ambassador Segun Olusola              Third Segment Segment:                   Making ANA Lagos Work Better                         Venue: National Arts Theatre, Aina Onobolu Complex Wing,                                  Iganmu, Costain, Lagos                         Time : 2.30pm -6pm                         Date : Second Saturday of March14, 2008.   Note: That the wedding of Akin Adeoya, shall not in any way affect our meeting.                         Forward this invitation to other serious writers of ideas. Come also with your dues for the new year, or pay into ANA Lagos GTB account 201107510110   Yours sincerely, Chike Ofili: Chairman.

Fw: Akin Adeoya finally finds a Wife, Sat 14 March

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, chike ofili <chikeofili@yahoo.com> wrote: From: chike ofili <chikeofili@yahoo.com> Subject: Akin Adeoya finally finds a Wife, Sat 14 March To: "ALAG" <authorsinlagos@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 11:26 AM Dear writer,   Akin Adeoya, copywriter, poet, journalist and publisher of Brands & Products , now known as M2 a marketing weekly, has finally found --- On Tue, 3/3/09, akin adeoya <adeoyaakin@yahoo.com> wrote: From: akin adeoya <adeoyaakin@yahoo.com> Subject: AKIN WEDS FLO To: "Akin Adeoya" <akinadeoya@marketingmixideas.com> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 10:58 AM Ladies and Gentlemen,   Make una join me o because I don fall in love!!   Akin   Akin Adeoya 36a Toyin Street Ikeja-Lagos 01-8905446 08035561219 Get your preferred Email name! Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com.

ANA Meets last Sat February28;Readings and Discussions on The Nature of Love

Dear writer,   As a result of this year's Valentine's day coinciding with our regular second Saturday of every month meetings, the house took a decision to allow members have some time with their spouses and lovers. We however moved the meet to the last Saturday of the same February.   We intend to have readings of poems and prose passages on love, share personal experiences on the issue and go ahead to intellectually discuss its very nature and how our associatio, ANA can be loved beyond a personal interest.   You are expected to come with your writings on love and love letters and correspondences that can help the experiential understanding of the subject.     First Segment:                    - Readings and Responses in works in progress                      - Sharing Literary Experiences of love                                             - Book Presentations of new works and excerpts from love centred books              Second Segment: Discussion                                            Theme:The Nature of Love; and Loving ANA Beyond Personal Interest                         Venue: National Arts Theatre, Aina Onobolu Complex Wing,                                  Iganmu, Costain, Lagos                         Time : 2.30pm -6pm                         Date : Last Saturday of February 28, 2008.                            Forward this invitation to other serious writers of ideas. Come also with your dues for the new year, or pay into ANA Lagos GTB account 201107510110   Yours sincerely, Chike Ofili: Chairman.

ANA, NLNG, BBC Prizes Competitions for all, out

Dear writer: pls be reminded that the NLNG prize for poetry is also out. See last Sunday Guardian for details. The BBC 2009 playwriting comprtion closes on March 31 , while LNLG closes March 14.     Dare to try.   ChikeOfili. 2009 ANA LITERARY PRIZES:CALL FOR ENTRIES Posted by: "denja abdullahi" denjabb@yahoo.com   denjabb Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:02 am (PST)     PRESS RELEASE        (Published & unpublished works)  2009 ANA LITERARY PRIZES: CALL FOR ENTRIES   Nigerian writers, at home and abroad, willing to enter their new works for the  Annual Literary Prizes of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) may do so now.   Interested creative writers should send six copies (6) of their entries (specifying the category being entered for) alongside a covering letter to the General Secretary, Association of Nigerian Authors, Suite 67, National Theater Complex, Iganmu Lagos. The entries which can be for any of the following categories must not have been entered before and must have been published between 2008 and 2009:   v    ANA/Cadbury Prize for Poetry                                         $1000 (Published works only)   v    ANA/NDDC Flora Nwapa Prize for Women Writing         N100,000 (Published works only)   v    ANA/NDDC Gabriel Okara Prize for Poetry              N100,000 (Published & unpublished works)   v    ANA/NDDC J. P. Clark Prize for Drama                    N100,000 v    ANA/NDDC Ken Saro Wiwa Prize for Prose             N100,000 (Published &unpublished works)     v    ANA/Chevron Prose Prize on environmental issues        N100,000 (Published works only)   v    ANA/Jacaranda Prize for Prose Fiction                   N50,000 (Published works only)   v    ANA/Funtime Prize for Children's Literature (prose)              (unpublished works only, Ages 8-15)                 N150,000                                                   Winning entry to be published by sponsor (Funtime Publications ) with a sign on fee of N250,000   v    ANA/Atiku Abubakar Prize for Children's Literature       N100,000 (Published works and picture books only; Ages 0-7)   v    ANA/Lantern Books Prize for Children's Fiction      N100,000 (Unpublished works only, Ages 8 - 15)         Winning entry to be published by Lantern Books   v   ANA/JAMES ENE HENSHAW PRIZE FOR PLAYWRITING( unpublished playscripts only)N100,000. Playwright of winning entry to work with an experienced director for the production of the play. v    ANA/NECO Teen Author Prize (prose)                    N100,000 (Published & unpublished works) See below for specific guidelines   v    ANA/Mazariyya Teen Author Prize (poetry)            N50,000 (Published & unpublished works) See below for specific guidelines   GUIDELINES FOR TEEN AUTHOR PRIZES   1.             Entrants must be students in any secondary school in Nigeria 2.     Entries must be a collection or a single story of between 25 – 40 pages for prose, or between 25 – 40 poems for poetry. 3.                Illustration (optional). 4.                Accompanying documents are: (i)Letter of identification from school principals on letter headed papers bearing name, signature and stamp with the entrants' two passport photographs, name, school, age (attach birth certificate) (II)entrants admission letters; (III)current cumulative record of entrants' academic performance (Junior or Secondary School); (IV)letter of consent from parents; (V)entrants' email addresses and phone contacts. 5.                Unpublished entries (in six copies) should be properly bound.         Deadline for the receipt of all entries for the 2009 ANA Literary Prizes is Teusday 31st March 2009. A shortlist will be announced in the first week of October, 2009. Winners of the prizes will be announced at the Awards Dinner in Minna, Niger State during the 28th International Annual Convention   of ANA in  October ,2009.       DENJA ABDULLAHI General Secretary ANA 26th January,2009.

Re-branded ANA Lagos New Look, Comments

--- On Thu, 2/5/09, chike ofili <chikeofili@yahoo.com> wrote: From: chike ofili <chikeofili@yahoo.com> Subject: ANA Lagos New Look To: "Chike" <chikeofili@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 7:08 AM Attached herewith are the new ANA Lagos Look.   Regards,   Chike Ofili   Please write back your honest comments, however frank. It was presented to the house the same last Saturday of Januaryy that we decided against holding the  Feb 14 ANA meeting that fell on Valentine day.   Be reminded that we would be meeting, last Saturday of February 28 where we shall be examining THE NATURE OF LOVE, a sub topic of which will be: Loving ANA Beyond Personal Interest. You are expected to come with love poems and passages and to share your love experience. Details of the programme, later.   Chike Ofili.

Poetry:Nigerian Law does not criminalise witchcraft?

A Local Voice:

In television I saw the wayo
And in facebook I see the image
They say na witch one child be
Coz the darkness of em charcoal blue skin
and the pity pity for face
should tell us say na mars em come from
and dat kind of world that em evolved from

for juju house
i saw djembe drums
cowries they scatter
old men dey chanting slogan
women bottocks shaking
as they kid they wailing
em dey crying
'I no go be witch again
Again and again
Em dey crying…

I dey write you what I see
I no no weder na witch true or witch lie lie

The Poet Voice:
there are laws
and there are no laws
and in Nigeria we have our laws
Nigerian Law does not criminalise witchcraft
Why? Do not ask me because I don't know

I am called by my surname OMOSUN
If I tell you the meaning I think
They will crucify me and call me WITCH

The Nigeria criminal law know not what witch means
Mainly because you cannot prove witchcraft
or the abracadabra that its associates

so where there is no law
These 'so-called pastors' or 'men of God'
Are the law unto themselves
We can not try them for murder
Because they say they are murdering murder
The children they kill are murder murder
Murder two times multiply murder murder

Shivering in a spirit dance
Drums beating along each part
The relic assault the victims
Point half a million for the exorcism
For murder two times multiply murder murder

what do you think...please reply
or visit me in facebook

the article by reuben Abati of the guardian inspired this poetry

Omosun Sylvester Planning Officer Bells University of Technology Ota, ogun state +234 8052130879 www.tribalpoetry.blogspot.com www.bellsuniversity.blogspot.com

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Re: NO ANA Meeting On Val Day till Sat Feb 25

Na wa for you o?  Who will you wife or fiancee on the said day, Chike Wife-Fianceeless-Ofili!   Dont even dare to think to call my name!  She will be with me!  In Abuja!   DH

NO ANA Meeting On Val Day till Sat Feb 25

Dear writer,   The Centre of Excellence Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos will not be holding its regular second Saturday of the month meeting that fell on Saturday February 14, Valentine Day.   The leadership of the association would be glad to see its members mind their wifves, husbands and fiancees on that day, reading only love related matters to their spouse, and do no more than that.   On the last Saturday of the same February, the general meeting will be holding on a discussion on LOVING ANA BEYOND YOUR PERSONAL INTEREST among many other interesting aspects of the programme to be announced later.   Please bear with us.   Chike Ofili, Chairman, ANA Lagos.

ANA Meets on: What alternatives to Bookshops; Profiting from writing in Nigeria

Please Note: Kindly make efforts to do an informed observation of the bookshops in your neighborhood and your local government, or the ones in your workplace, and come to the meeting with your observations: their names and adresses, emails and phones.      Dear writer,     Sequel to our most inspiring meeting on the last second Saturday of this month where we heartily discussed What ANA Should Be Seen Doing For Writers, is this follow-up issue on the need for writers to take the bull by the horns in taking their craft and economic worries beyond the typical application of the strategy of do nothing; of practiced helplessness. We want you to come and be part of this open house discussion on taking our craft of writing beyond the partial fulfillment of the mere psychological satisfaction of being published, or of being a prize winner that does not transform our lives from what it used to be. We'd like to know your views on  this, and what you propose should be the  strategic new direction that will afford writers a better deal in this era  when other members of the art family are profiting from their art including the late starters, Stand-Up -Comedians. What viable alternative do we have to the present state of things in the marketing channels of distributing, selling, retrieving sales, or getting royalties as the case may be. What alternatives to the dying tradition of bookshops? What creative alternatives can we adopt to interest Nigerians in liking, buying and reading our books in the way Nigerian movie and music have substantially snatched the eyes and ears of Nigerians from foreign films and music respectively. Can we come together to snatch the minds of Nigerians from foreign invasion through books with our alternative options? We can, so we should come on the last Saturday January 31 with our thinking caps of irresistible alternatives.           First Segment:                    - Readings and Responses in works in progress                      - Sharing Literary Experiences                                             - Book Presentations of new works              Second Segment: Discussion                                            Theme:Profiting from Writing Beyond the Partial                                 Fulfillment of Publishing This is going to be an open house discussion by members and people of creative and transformative ideas.                         Venue: National Arts Theatre, Aina Onobolu Complex Wing,                                  Iganmu, Costain, Lagos                         Time : 2.30pm -6pm                         Date : Last Saturday of January 31, 2008                              All serious writers who respect their calling for writing are expected. Forward this invitation to other serious writers of ideas. Come also with your dues for the new year   Yours sincerely, Chike Ofili: Chairman.

ANA Meets Sat January 31 ;Lagos Writers Discuss Profiting from Writing Beyond Just Publishing

Dear writer,     Sequel to our most inspiring meeting on the last second Saturday of this month where we heartily discussed What ANA Should Be Seen Doing For Writers, is this follow-up issue on the need for writers to take the bull by the horns in taking their craft and economic worries beyond the typical application of the strategy of do nothing; of practiced helplessness. We want you to come and be part of this open house discussion on taking our craft of writing beyond the partial fulfillment of the mere psychological satisfaction of being published, or of being a prize winner that does not transform our lives from what it used to be. We'd like to know your views on  this, and what you propose should be the  strategic new direction that will afford writers a better deal in this era  when other members of the art family are profiting from their art including the late starters, Stand-Up -Comedians. What viable alternative do we have to the present state of things in the marketing channels of distributing, selling, retrieving sales, or getting royalties as the case may be. What alternatives to the dying tradition of bookshops? What creative alternatives can we adopt to interest Nigerians in liking, buying and reading our books in the way Nigerian movie and music have substantially snatched the eyes and ears of Nigerians from foreign films and music respectively. Can we come together to snatch the minds of Nigerians from foreign invasion through books with our alternative options? We can, so we should come on the last Saturday January 31 with our thinking caps of irresistible alternatives.           First Segment:                    - Readings and Responses in works in progress                      - Sharing Literary Experiences                                             - Book Presentations of new works              Second Segment: Discussion                                            Theme:Profiting from Writing Beyond the Partial                                 Fulfillment of Publishing This is going to be an open house discussion by members and people of creative and transformative ideas.                         Venue: National Arts Theatre, Aina Onobolu Complex Wing,                                  Iganmu, Costain, Lagos                         Time : 2.30pm -6pm                         Date : Last Saturday of January 31, 2008                              All serious writers who respect their calling for writing are expected. Forward this invitation to other serious writers of ideas. Come also with your dues for the new year   Yours sincerely, Chike Ofili: Chairman.

Lagos Writers Discuss Profiting from Writing Beyond Just Publishing

Dear Writer,     Sequel to our most inspiring meeting on the last second Saturday of this month where we heartily discussed What ANA Should Be Seen Doing For Writers, is this follow-up burning issue of the need for writers to take the bull by the horns in taking their craft and economic worries beyond the typical application of the strategy of do nothing; of practiced helplessness. We want you to come and be part of this open house discussion on taking our craft of writing beyond the partial fulfillment of of a mere psychological satisfaction of being published, or of being a prize winner that does not transform our lives from what it used to be. We'd like to know your views on  profiting from writing beyond the partial fulfillment of being published, and what you propose should be the  strategic new direction that will afford writers a better deal in this era  when other members of the art family are profiting from their art including the late starter, Stand-Up -Comedy. What viable alternative do we have to the present state of things in the marketing channels of distributing, selling, retrieving sales, or getting royalties as the case may be. What creative alternatives can we adopt to interest Nigerians in liking, reading and buying our books in the way Nigerian movie and music have substantially snatched the eyes and ears of Nigerians from foreign films and music respectively. Can we come together to snatch the minds of Nigerians from foreign invasion through books without our alternative options? We can, so we should come on the last Saturday January 31 with our thinking caps of irresistible alternatives.           First Segment:                    - Readings and Responses in works in progress                      - Sharing Literary Experiences                                             - Book Presentations of new works              Second Segment: Discussion                                            Theme:Profiting from Writing Beyond the Partial                                 Fulfillment of Publishing This is going to be an open house discussion by members and people of creative and transformative ideas.                         Venue: National Arts Theatre, Aina Onobolu Complex Wing,                                  Iganmu, Costain, Lagos                         Time : 2.30pm -6pm                         Date : Last Saturday of January 31, 2008                                     All serious writers who respect their calling for writing are expected. Forward this invitation to other serious writers of ideas. Come also with your dues for the new year   Yours sincerely, Chike Ofili: Chairman.

POETRY COMPETION FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS

Dear writer,   Please interest your younger ones and teachers and students in secondary schools in this poetry competition.   Thanks.   The AMBASSADOR'S POETRY CONTEST is a poetry competition strictly for nigerian secondary school students. if you are one, then you are fit to come on board. compose a poem on any topic of your choice and send it in microsoft word format to seeme@ambofpoetry.com. the poem must be at most 25 lines. if you are able to make through the rounds of the contest, you would be sent some mails to notify you. send alongside your name, email, phone number, the name of your school and the address; failure to do this automatically disqualifies your entry. the last ten standing will have the opportunity to perform their poems live at the launching of THE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH come march, 2009 before live judges:   THE JUDGES    Sage Hassan,  Chike Ofili , Helen Sosu  Emem Ema.    PRIZES: the winner will be crowned as the PRINCE/PRINCESS OF POETS IN NIGERIA   cash prize   publishing contract.                         ayodeji ajomale-god                         US ambassador of poetry.

ANA Meets Sat 10 Jan

Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 1:19 AM   Dear Writer,   Happier New Year! And i hope, happier ANA Lagos.   This first meeting of the month will seek to have us talk about what our expectations are as ANA Lagos members among other burning issues.   First Segment:                    - Readings and Responses( Open house)                      - Sharing Literary Experiences          LOSING AN EDITOR, THE STORIES OF OKEY OKPA's WRITERS & PUBLISHER                      Speakers: Jude Dibia, Author of award winning, Unbridled                                      Hyacinth Obuseh,award winning author publisher,Hybun International, Abuja.                                    - Book Presentations                      Toni Kan's: Night of the Creaking Bed ( A novel)                    Joy Isi Bewaji's Eko Dialogue( A collection of short stories)   Second Segment: Discussion                                            Theme: WHAT ANA SHOULD BE SEEN DOING FOR WRITERS This is going to be an open house discussion by members and people of ideas                         Venue: National Arts Theatre, Aina Onobolu Complex Wing,                                  Iganmu, Costain, Lagos                         Time : 2.30pm -6pm                         Date : Every Second Saturday of the Months                                Saturday January 10, 2008   Come with your dues for the new year   Yours sincerely, Chike Ofili: Chairman.

Fw: ANA Sat 13 Dec Reading Adresses Playwriting & a Performance

Dear writer,   Saturday December 13 marks another major meeting of the Centre of Excellence chapter of the Associatioon of Nigerian Authors, Lagos.In further pursuit of solving the problem of the failing craft in play writing, we have sought a cure to it by understanding it through the practitioners.    Come get knowledge and get entertained.Also come coupled.   First Segment: Light readings                                               Work in Progress                          New book(s) Presentation       Second Segment:Discussion   Theme: Understanding Playwriting Via the Practice of a Stage Director   Speaker: Mr. Segun Adefila, Leader of a thriving theatre troupe in Lagos, Crown Troupe Africa that is increasingly showing the possibilities in theatre vibrancy and financial viability     Third Segment: A Play by Crown Troupe of Africa:                             Dreams and Voices   Venue: National Gallery of Arts, Aina Onabolu Complex Wing of the National Theatre,              Iganmu, Lagos   Time: 2.30 pm to 7pm    Date: Saturday 13 December, 2008   Come also with your annual dues for the ANA end of year was last October.Update your previous and new dues to enable us serve you better. Happy Sallah! Hope it teaches us to make the necessary sacrifices that are necessary to uplift our association from its present debilitating apathy.   Yours: Chike Ofili Chairman.

ANA Sat 13 Dec Reading Adresses Playwriting & a Performance

Dear writer,   Saturday December 13 marks another major meeting of the Centre of Excellence chapter of the Associatioon of Nigerian Authors, Lagos.In further pursuit of solving the problem of the failing craft in play writing, we have sought a cure to it by understanding it through the practitioners.    Come get knowledge and get entertained.Also come coupled.   First Segment: Light readings                                               Work in Progress                          New book(s) Presentation       Second Segment:Discussion   Theme: Understanding Playwriting Via the Practice of a Stage Director   Speaker: Mr. Segun Adefila, Leader of a thriving theatre troupe in Lagos, Crown Troupe Africa that is increasingly showing the possibilities in theatre vibrancy and financial viability     Third Segment: A Play by Crown Troupe of Africa:                             Dreams and Voices   Venue: National Gallery of Arts, Aina Onabolu Complex Wing of the National Theatre,              Iganmu, Lagos   Time: 2.30 pm to 7pm    Date: Saturday 13 December, 2008   Come also with your annual dues for the ANA end of year was last October.Update your previous and new dues to enable us serve you better. Happy Sallah! Hope it teaches us to make the necessary sacrifices that are necessary to uplift our association from its present debilitating apathy.   Yours: Chike Ofili Chairman.

Fw: Chike Ofili Marks 40 with 3 B00ks hosted on Website, Nov 10

Dear Writer,   I am very delighted to let you into a well-kept secret that has taken all manner of speculations , exagerations and reductions.I am glad to let you know that i will be 40 years old om Mon. November 10 without a wife and wealth enough to attract the type that deserves me.   My restless life as some friends have always harped upon, has snatched some meaning through the pen.I will on November 10 as i re-mourn the death of Ken Saro- Wiwa, will try to hoist three books on a new website created in part for that purpose since i coudn't be satisfied with the cover designs that would have made me come out with two of the more recent of the books.So i decided to hoist my thoughts on the world wide web.So you should be reading in part:   Segun Olusola: A Bridge Across Divides;   Fela's Re-arrangement: A Collage of the Poetic Biography of Nigeria's Folkhero of Afrobeat Music,   and my collection of poems:The Weight of Waiting, all of which will be on: www.reputationsconsulting.com and my blog on Mon. November 10.   Other works of mine in the making are The Biography of Nollywood: The Genius of the Indegenous Nigerian Movie, and The Biography of Advertising: The Handmaiden of Commerce.   I will be as available to read anything from you as i will also be on hand to be asked out, walked to the altar and receive your gifts of love, and a party.   You should hear of my Book Party plans for the last Saturday in November, all things being equal.    Till then, see you this saturday in celebration of Obama, Uncle Ted, and Yemi Adebisi and Evelyn Osagie the joint winners of the ANA/ Anyiam Osigwe literary journalist award.   It's me: Chike Ofili. 08023409781

Update:Lagos Writers Celebrate Obama, host Ted Mukoro iconic Copywriter, Actor; & ANA Literary Journalist Winners

Following the historic victory of our own Barack Obama as an American political giant killer, and a definer of a new path, ANA Lagos will be taking some time out to celebrate the import of this Black hope, cerebrally. Dear Writer/journalist,   It is heartwarming to let you know that the just concluded ANA Zamfara 2008 is one that has most treated writers with a lot of star-studded respect. The new baby Chapter of the ANA Zamfara simply began life by skipping crawling into running well ahead of other chapters with its command of state assistance emboldened by its education driven state governor.     Nigerian's veteran and iconic copywriter and advertising man, Uncle Ted Mukoro who just turned 80 in October will be hosted by Lagos writers.The famous copywriter of star beer's "shine shine bobo" advertisement and a major hand that built Star beer into market success will be on hand to solve two major problems for writers. He would be interesting writers in "The Commercial craft of Copywriting" as part of this administration's campaign promise to train writers in writing related professions in order to secure job opportunities in our field of writing in order to provide a set of financially empowered ANA members capable of growing the association.   Uncle Ted who is also a veteran actor who has traversed radio, television and home video acting, the famous first Headmaster in the Nigerian longest TV serial, The Village Headmaster. He would be addressing the failing craft of playwriting that ANA panel of judges over the years have not found fit to award the ANA drama prizes. He would be speaking on "Understanding Playwriting from the Lenses of an Actor".   As our guest writers for the month of November, we shall be hosting the two joint winners of the ANA/Anyiam Osigwe prize for literary journalism: Mr. Yemi Adebisi of the Daily Independent newspapers and Miss Evelyn Osagwe of The Nation newspaper two new blessing to literary journalism in Nigeria who approach their work with naked commitment without the split commitment between professionalism and profiteering.   On the same Saturday November 8,  at the ANA Lagos will be hosting one of its committed members Mr. Adewusi, whose new novel, The Rage of Love, a story of an African in diaspora in love under book presentation.   Date: Saturday November 8, 2008   Time: 2pm - 6.30pm   Place: The Aina Onabolu Wing of the National Theatre,  Costain, Iganmu, Lagos.   This is an open invitation to copywriters in the advertising and marketing communications industry and actors in Nollywood. Please pass this on to those you know.     It's me: Chike Ofili, Chairman, ANA Lagos.

Lagos Writers host Ted Mukoro iconic Copywriter, Actor; & ANA Literary Journalist Winners

Dear Writer,   It is heartwarming to let you know that the just concluded ANA Zamfara 2008 is one that has most treated writers with a lot of star-studded respect. The new baby Chapter of the ANA Zamfara simply began life by skipping crawling into running well ahead of other chapters with its command of state assistance emboldened by its education driven state governor.     Nigerian's veteran and iconic copywriter and advertising man, Uncle Ted Mukoro who just turned 80 in October will be hosted by Lagos writers.The famous copywriter of star beer's "shine shine bobo" advertisement and a major hand that built Star beer into market success will be on hand to solve two major problems for writers. He would be interesting writers in "The Commercial craft of Copywriting" as part of this administration's campaign promise to train writers in writing related professions in order to secure job opportunities in our field of writing in order to provide a set of financially empowered ANA members capable of growing the association.   Uncle Ted who is also a veteran actor who has traversed radio, television and home video acting, the famous first Headmaster in the Nigerian longest TV serial, The Village Headmaster. He would be addressing the failing craft of playwriting that ANA panel of judges over the years have not found fit to award the ANA drama prizes. He would be speaking on "Understanding Playwriting from the Lenses of an Actor".   As our guest writers for the month of November, we shall be hosting the two joint winners of the ANA/Anyiam Osigwe prize for literary journalism: Mr. Yemi Adebisi of the Daily Independent newspapers and Miss Evelyn Osagwe of The Nation newspaper two new blessing to literary journalism in Nigeria who approach their work with naked commitment without the split commitment between professionalism and profiteering.   On the same Saturday November 8,  at the ANA Lagos will be hosting one of its committed members Mr. Adewusi, whose new novel, The Rage of Love, a story of an African in diaspora in love under book presentation.   Date: Saturday November 8, 2008   Time: 2pm - 6.30pm   Place: The Aina Onabolu Wing of the National Theatre,  Costain, Iganmu, Lagos.   This is an open invitation to copywriters in the advertising and marketing communications industry and actors in Nollywood. Please pass this on to those you know.     It's me: Chike Ofili, Chairman, ANA Lagos.

Come to ANA Zamfara 2008 National Convention

Dear Writer,   Greetings! You are encouraged to be at the coming national convention in Zamfara fro Thurs 30 October to Sat November 1 at Gusau Hotel. Gusau is the state capital and the state is agog with billboards announcing our expected arrivals.   Clear your doubts and biases about Sharia. We need to get over the media conditionings on this. Your best report on Zamfara is best got from the Youth Corpers who served there.   Kano 2001 remains one of the best ANA conventions in recent memory. We enjoyed ourselves.   Another attraction is the opportunity of seeing the caliphate and its environs. A golden opportunity to see the north North that influenced the other parts.   Lets be there for our committed ANA Zamfara chapter who always come all the way to the different part of the country wherever the Convention held.   DIRECTION TO ZAMFARA:   If you are coming by air, connecting from Kaduna/Kano airport where you can't get a direct.   If by road, a ride to Kaduna, is nearer to Zamfara where you take another bus to Gusau.   Expecting brothers and sisters.   Na me: Chike Ofili, Chairman Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos.(08023409781)

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- How family, hope all is is well? Sorry at this Perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this letter, since we have not known ourselves or met previously. Despite that, I am constrained to write you because of the urgency of it and the source through which I got your contact gave me the confidence to reach you. By way of self introduction; I am Mrs. Pauline M. Kobe, a widow. My Husband was a top politician and well known rich cattle farmer from Sudan, he was a strong opposition member to the incumbent government and has indefatigably fought for the liberation of the minority Sudanese, he died in a helicopter crash alongside with 12 others members of his political party, and till date, what led to the helicopter crash is still unclear but I know that my husband was the target. I have a problem and I believe you will be of great assistance. Since after his death, I was trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms. Have suffered maltreatment along with my children and untold hardship in the hands of my late husband's family, simply because I did not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my husband and by their tradition, all that my late husband had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And I am to be remarried by his immediate younger brother which I vehemently refused because I 'm a religious person I always sought for God's direction in all my endeavors. On this basis, they conspired and took all that I suffered with my husband to acquire including treasures, houses and his bank particular seized by them. Am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment over my high blood pressure and diabetes which keep weighing me down and kept me totally handicapped at my age of 44yrs. few weeks ago, I wanted to go on medical treatment in Germany but my husband brothers ganged up again and stole my international passport just to further frustrate my life. Now, God has liberated me and my Daughters by discovery of Money belong to my late husband and to God be the glory, none of his family knows about this development as I write you this mail. I came to know this, through his Fiduciary Agent and the Money involved was made out of his business dealings overseas, in total of 7.5 Millions United States Dollars, kept somewhere for his investment purposes before his enemies took away his dear life. Upon hearing from you, I will introduce you to the Fiduciary Agent who assisted him in making the deposit to help into this transaction. Based on what I read about you on your profile, I need your involvement as a person of high profile and influential to help us relocate this funds to your Bank account and invest it into real estate or any other lucrative business of your choice as I think to be safe in your hand though it depends when we start moving forward, it has become very necessary and urgent I relocate it his money outside it's present location before my brother in-laws lay claims on it and that is my main reasons for contacting a foreigner like you to come in and receive this money as I cannot do it myself due to my bad health condition now. If I may ask to know, can you be able to arrange my traveling documents to your Country for my medical checkup if this money been transfer to your care?. My life has been devoted to working with children and I will use 10% of the total Money to fund charity, orphanages and widows in name of my late Husband while reserve the remaining for the future of my four lovely daughters, while 15% goes to you. Dear, since yesterday night, my sickness has becoming on unbearable and I have no other option than to thanks the lord Almighty for every situation found self. There is no reason to keep hold of the fund when I know that I may have no chance of enjoying it here on earth than to invest it for the future of Children. Therefore, I am serious in need of your word as I wait to know your decision on this appeal. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you more details. May God bless you and your entire household. I advise you resend reply to my personal email address here: paulinekobe@live.com Regards, Mrs. Pauline Kobe and Children.

ANA POSTPONES SAT OCT 12 READING

Dear writer,   Greetings! Owing to tomorrow's local election in Lagos, the ANA meeting of Sat Oct 12 will no longer hold. However a makeup will be given to you on the last saturday Oct 25. Pls block that day in your diary and calender.   We should be hosting the foremost northern Nigerian writer, Prof. Zainab Alkali, a novelist and academic. Details later.   Chike Ofili.

Re: WRITERS DISCUSS OBAMA'S BLACK HOPE, Sat October 11

Chike,   Whats up for 25th?  I will be in Lagos then, God willing.  Mopping up for the Convention.   DH --- On Sat, 10/4/08, chike ofili <chikeofili@yahoo.com> wrote: From: chike ofili <chikeofili@yahoo.com> Subject: WRITERS DISCUSS OBAMA'S BLACK HOPE, Sat October 11 To: "ADA" <adabasil97@yahoo.com>, "ADE" <adelekejj@yahoo.co.uk>, "ADEK" <adekoyatj@yahoo.com>, "ADI" <adiankoyen@yahoo.com>, "ADI" <adiorah@yahoo.com>, "AKIM" <akim08@yahoo.com>, "ANAB" <analagos_1.mail@blogger.com>, "ARI" <arigbs@yahoo.co.uk>, "AWO" <awoko@poetic.com>, "BAB" <babaosha@yahoo.com>, "BAB" <babatunde2@yahoo.com>, "BAN" <bankeeboda@yahoo.com>, "BIG" <bigboy-5kunley@yahoo.com>, "BJI" <bjinmi@excite.com>, "BLA" <blackpoet111@yahoo.com>, "CHI" <chibumah@yahoo.com>, "Chike" <chikeofili@yahoo.com>, "CHIM" <chime4real@yahoo.com>, "Chm" <chrisakoma@yahoo.com>, "Chris" <chris@chrisakomah.com>, "COMS" <comsearch2000@yahoo.com>, "CONR" <conradian@yahoo.com>, "DAG" <daggatolar@yahoo.com>, "EBO" <ebogenius@yahoo.com>, "EDITM" <editmyfoot@yahoo.com>, "EXPL" <explosivedominion@yahoo.com>, "FAMS" <famsalinks@yahoo.com>, "FRA" <francisking9@yahoo.com>, "FRE" <frednwonwu@yahoo.com>, "HJE" <hjeel@yahoo.com>, "Iwu" <iwuno01@yahoo.com>, "IYAN" <iyaniwura@yahoo.com>, "JAY" <jaytuwase@yahoo.com>, "JIDE" <jidenma_ije@yahoo.com>, "KEM" <kemikemgi@yahoo.com>, "LEX" <lexxytopten@yahoo.com>, "MAR" <maryina777@yahoo.co.uk>, "MOL" <molarawood@yahoo.co.uk>, "MUJI" <mujidath@yahoo.com>, "NDS" <ndslimaneux@yahoo.com>, "NEW" <newman4ever@yahoo.com>, "NNE" <nnejiben@yahoo.com>, "NOOK" <nookiabooks@yahoo.com>, "ODI" <odiliujubuonu@yahoo.com>, "OGW" <ogwupaulo@yahoo.com>, "OJN" <ojnneji@yahoo.com>, "Olo" <olokeproductions@yahoo.com>, "OLUY" <oluyemisiagboola@yahoo.com>, "OMO" <omotolaakinbo@yahoo.com>, "PAN" <panseke@aol.com>, "PBA" <pbalow@yahoo.com>, "PEP" <peppyng@hotmail.com>, "PHI" <philipbegho@yahoo.com>, "Pig" <pigeonhole98@yahoo.com>, "POE" <poettaiwo@yahoo.com>, "PTO" <ptosan@yahoo.com>, "PUG" <publishinggoldmark@yahoo.com>, "Ral" <ralph_ema@yahoo.com>, "RAL" <ralphdiai@yahoo.com>, "RAS" <raschuxxy@yahoo.com>, "REXE" <rexemma@yahoo.com>, "ROS" <rosemaryuche@yahoo.com>, "RYTE" <ryte4me@yahoo.com>, "SER" <sereneroll@yahoo.com>, "Seu" <seunike@yahoo.com>, "SEU" <seunola@hotmail.com>, "SEY" <seyiakinlolu@hotmail.com>, "SHA" <sharingwithtreasure@yahoo.co.uk>, "SIS" <sishow2001@yahoo.com>, "Sma" <smarteemediaconcept@yahoo.com>, "SSO" <ssoetan@nova.net.ng>, "SUL" <sultoye1423@yahoo.com>, "TEM" <temialldway@yahoo.com>, "THO" <thosesubs@yahoo.com>, "TRI" <tribalpoetry@yahoo.com>, "USE" <useniudo@yahoo.com>, "VOCH" <vochic@yahoo.co.uk>, "WRIT" <writersinlagos@yahoo.com>, "YEW" <yewanday6@yahoo.com>, "YOM" <yomihabib@yahoo.com>, "YOU" <youaremywisdom@msn.com> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 6:50 AM ANA READING OF SATURDAY OCTOBER 11   The Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos will be holding its October reading discussing The Audacity of Barack Obama's Black Hope in America towards the coming election in America. It is an open house discussion that promises to be hot and inspiring.This discussion will preface a major program of the association on the subject on Saturday, October 25 all things worked as planned. This is geared towards positioning ANA as a shapener of opinion and a house of ideas   FIRST SEGMENT: Work in Progress                            -Light readings by members,                            - Sharing literary experiences, book presentation                            - Chike Ofili's reading from his coming book: The Weight of Waiting   SECOND SEGMENT:ANA Lagos One year into this administration                                  ANA Convention 2008 in Zamfara    THIRD SEGMENT:  Discussion: The Audacity of Obama's Black Hope in America                               Venue: National Arts Theatre, National Gallery of Arts                                             Aina Onabolu Complex, Iganmu, Lagos                             Time: 2pm - 6pm

Fela and Mandela, Two System Fighters

Please pleasure yourself in this priced piece by Mr. Segun Sofowote at a previous ANA Lagos meeting.   Chike Ofili, Chairman.

WRITERS DISCUSS OBAMA'S BLACK HOPE, Sat October 11

ANA READING OF SATURDAY OCTOBER 11   The Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos will be holding its October reading discussing The Audacity of Barack Obama's Black Hope in America towards the coming election in America. It is an open house discussion that promises to be hot and inspiring.This discussion will preface a major program of the association on the subject on Saturday, October 25 all things worked as planned. This is geared towards positioning ANA as a shapener of opinion and a house of ideas   FIRST SEGMENT: Work in Progress                            -Light readings by members,                            - Sharing literary experiences, book presentation                            - Chike Ofili's reading from his coming book: The Weight of Waiting   SECOND SEGMENT:ANA Lagos One year into this administration                                  ANA Convention 2008 in Zamfara    THIRD SEGMENT:  Discussion: The Audacity of Obama's Black Hope in America                               Venue: National Arts Theatre, National Gallery of Arts                                             Aina Onabolu Complex, Iganmu, Lagos                             Time: 2pm - 6pm

48th Independence Greetings for NIgeria

Dear writer,   Greetings from the Association of Nigerian Authors, the Centre of  Exellence chapter, Lagos, and happy independence day to Nigeria, our dear native land!   As we mark our 48th anniversary as a nation, i call on us to renew our faith in Nigeria our country, and to remember always that you are the change that Nigeria awaits. Lets put ourselves on oath never to sabotage Nigeria for any reason, and at whatever personal benefit to us.   As we write from the generous materials this land of stories gives to us, lets us write hope into it, because everything good will come. Let us identify the saboteurs, and do something about them.   I wish you a renewed love for Nigeria.   It's me: Chike Ofili, Chairman.

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