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JOIN FIDELITY BANK & CHIMAMANDA FOR A LITERARY FEAST   From the Chairman's Desk: Fidelity Bank that is fast emerging as a bank for literature would have me invite ANA members to the closing ceremony of the creative writers' workshop that ends with a literal and literary feast. ANA Lagos identifies with this laudable initiative. So lets be there for the bank and Chimamanda. Listen to Fidelity's media manager, poet James Eze:  This is calling on memebers of this group who might find themselves in our neck of the wood this Friday to the closing ceremony of the International Creative Writing Workshop organized by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and sponsored by Fidelity Bank Plc. It just might be worth your while to watch Chimamanda, Dave Eggers, Marie-Elena John and Binyavanga Wainaina talk about their works. And what's more, your favourite Nigerian authors might be among the list of writers from the Nigerian scene who will read their works to the audience. Date - Friday August 29, 2008 Venue - Oceanview Restaurant, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, V.I, Lagos Time - 4.00 pm Folks, its a literary feast. Don't miss this one! Thank you. James Eze __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Members All opinions expressed in this forum are the sole responsibility of the writer. All opinions expressed on this list are the copyright of the writer(s) and should not be published/used elsewhere without the permission of the writer. To read the archive (if you have a Yahoo email only): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/krazitivity/messages Post a message (you can also hit reply to emails received): krazitivity@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: krazitivity-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe (just in case we get boring): krazitivity-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to Krazitivity group site and relieve yourself of us. Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Visit Your Group Only on Yahoo! World of Star Wars Meet fans, watch videos & more. Yahoo! Groups Join a program to help you find balance in your life. Special K Group on Yahoo! Groups Learn how others are losing pounds. . __,_._,___

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Writers Mourn lettered Men, Solzhenitsyn, Jose and artists

PRESS RELEASE                 Writers Mourn lettered men, Solzhenitsyn, Jose and Artists Just as the Centre of Excellence chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, Lagos was just marking the longevity associated with writers and fighters in the persons of Dr. T.M Aluko and Dr. Nelson Mandela's 90th birthdays,and preparing to jointly examine Lessons From Mandela and Fela, Two System Fighters on Saturday August 9, 2008, a major writer and fighter, Mr. Alexander Solzhenitsyn of the dreaded system of Josef Stalin's Soviet Union, passed away at 90 too. So did the quintessential Nigerian journalist, Mr. Babatunde Jose at 82. ANA  Lagos mourns the great Russian novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn,the writer who fought Josef Stalin's  repressive Russia to a standstill with his courage, his pen and his voice. He also did so much to the general understanding of repressive systems and the appreciation of prison literature with works like The Gulag Archipelago, One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich among his many books with which he exposed Stalin's Russia.For the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA Lagos, it is both prophetic of their celebration of the longevity associated with writers and fighters as evidenced and celebrated in Dr.T. M Aluko and Dr.Nelson Mandela, as it is of their topic of discussion for Saturday 9 August in their every second Saturday of the month reading on: Lessons From Mandela and Fela, Two System Fighters. In the words of  Mr. Chike Ofili, the chapter Chairman, "To help bring the distant death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great and unbowed Russian writer that resisted the tyranny of Josef Stalin's misrule with his courage, pen and voice home to our Nigerian environment, is to try to apprehend the repressive psychological weather of fear that journalist-fighter Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe worked under colonial Nigeria, that the afrobeat musical maestro, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the fire brand legal luminary, Gani Fawehinmi who were constantly gallowed by repressive military regimes in Nigeria, operated in; whilst not forgeting Prof. Chike Obi, Prof Wole Soyinka and Dr. Bala Usman. So was A.S of Russia in Stalin's gulag" . We also mourn Alhaji Babatunde Jose a lettered and committed man of the pen who was much sold out to journalistic excellence at a time when news gathering was much more challenging.We celebrate rather than mourn the autobiographical author of Walking a Tight Rope  and greatly hope that today's journalism in Nigeria that is increasingly getting compromised in standards and ethics, and ever waiting for the news to walk its way into the newsroom in a wait-and-get manner, will find rejuvenation from his death says Chike  Ofili. In similar manner, the body of writers commiserate with the Performing Musician Association of Nigeria,PMAN and broadcasters for their losses too many."We are bowed by the death of the revolutionary fighter singer, Sunny Okosun, the technical depth of the musicianship and musicology of Steve Rhodes, the pleasure giving music of Oliver de Coque, the budding music of Sammy Needle. So do we fondly miss the fast fading research enabling broadcast presentation style and politeness of the late NTA man, Mr.Segun Apata, and Mr. Alade Aromire the resorceful movie maker in the yoruba tradition who brought entrepreneurship and the will to solve a threatening challenge to the movie making business hobby, and for his business acumen even in the Estate business.    The Centre of Excellence chapter of  the ANA, Lagos invites writers and the general public to its 2pm meeting on Saturday 9 August at the Aina Onabolu , National Arts gallery Wing of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos.       Signed Mrs. Christy Odia P.A to the Chairman: Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos.

Re: Writers Examine Mandela and Fela, Two System Fighters

Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 2:21 PM Profile of our Speakers:     Mr. Segun Sofowote: broadcaster, musician, author, publisher is a unique system fighter who has almost successfully turned his back on society and institutions to survive in spite of it.He is a Fela contemporary and a most popular music presenter in the 1970s.   He would be a new addition to our rich team of discussants.     Odia Ofeimun:is a chronic optimist in the possibility of a new Nigeria, a Fela man who has poems for Fela in most of his collections. He is also very well acquinted with the South African situation and his collection of poems: Under the African Sky is a poetic exploration of the South African challenge and the black response to it. A tapestry of history, culture and politics that seeks solution to apartheid under one African sky.     Sola Olorunyomi: is a lost in Fela 's lore and labyrith. A poetic and Fela scolar from the University of Ibadan, a former journalist and a nomad acoss Africa and the world stopped by marriage.    Guest Writer: Adewalw Maja Pearse is a well known editor  who like Chinua Achebe,worked with Heinemann.He will bring so much into his session.              Writers Examine MANDELA AND FELA TWO SYSTEM FIGHTERS   The Centre of Excellence Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos will be doing a public celebration of Africa's symbol of our globally desired humanity, Madiba, Nelson Mandela who turned 90 on July 18; and one of Africa's finest music maestro with a musical mission and direction, Fela Anikulapo Kuti on Saturday 9 August, 2008.The chapter intends to take a look at the similarities and differences in the ways these two accomplished change agents took on the different systems within ttheir countries.Whereas Mandela took on apartheid  as represented in their foreign overlords headlong in South Africa through political activism, even against 27 years of incaceration,Fela confronted internal oppression, corruption and retrogression with his musical weapon and verbal activism.   At the ANA Lagos' monthly reading, Mr. Chike Ofili the Chairman of the Chapter would be making a pre-presentation of the ready poetic biography of Fela to the public, under the programmes's segment:Work in Progress.It is an anthology, the publics' poetic interpretation of Fela sent in to chikeofili@yahoo.com over two years. Contributors to the coming collection of poems are required to be around, and new contributors, particularly women will be given till the end of August for the final submission for the book that will be coming out on the month of Fela's birthday in October.   The Guest writer: Mr. Adewale Maja Pierce, author , editor and publisher     Theme: Mandela and Fela: Lessons From Two System Fighters   Discussants: Mr. Odia Ofeimun, author, poet, journalist, essayist and activist                     Dr.Sola Olorunyomi, poet,essayist, Fela scholar and activist                     Mr.Toyin Akinosho, journalist, publisher,art catalyst,South Africa nomad    Date : Saturday August 9, 2008   Venue: National Arts Theatre, National Arts Gallery, Aina Onabolu Complex,Iganmu, Lagos    Time: 2pm- 6pm   The South African community in Nigeria and the general public are all expected.       Chike Ofili Chairman:Association of Nigerian Author, Lagos.

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