Monday, September 08, 2008

Update on Sat Sept 13 ANA Reading:Guesting:Chinweizu,Dr.Femi Olugbuile













From the Chairman's Desk
 
Dear writer,
 
The Centre of Excellence Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors(ANA) Lagos will be holding its Saturday September 13 Reading as usual
 
First Segment: 2pm . 3pm
- Works in progress
- Public presentation and celebration of new books
- Back Home to Roost:Accounts of Two Female Nigerian writers who relocated from abroad
Molara Wood and Aig-Iruwa
 
Second Segment: 3pm - 4.30pm
 
GUEST WRITER: Dr. Femi Olugbile
Author of five books among which are three novels: Lonely Men, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, Leader and Batolica. His other books are in his medical area as a trained pyschiatrist a profession he has put to great use in his exploration of his fictional characters. These books are: Nigeria at Work (Social psychology/psychiatry) and his off the field field book , Ten Ahead! A History of Table Tennis in Nigeria.
 
Olugbile who is the Chief Medical Director at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital will be reading from his past and present works. We have had to drag him out of the hospital so that he can also attend to his God-given talent which carries more judgement after all else is done professionally and vocationally.
 
He is excited and has given his word.He has also promised to help arrange the possibility of using his medical links to provide committed ANA Lagos members with a free and collective medical check up.
 
 
Third Segment: 4.30pm - 6pm
 
DISCUSION : Obama: Oratory, Orature, Literature and Black Hope in America
 
SPEAKER: Chinweizu, World class thinker, writer, Africanist and  Black Redemptionist
The author of The West and the Rest of Us; Decolonising the African Mind,
Anatomy of Female Power, Energy Crisis (poetry}; Decolonisation of African
Literature etc
 
Venue: National Arts Theatre
            National Gallery of Arts
            Aina Onabolu Complex
            Igannmu, Lagos
 
Time: 2pm - 6.30pm
 
Please be very early, and come with your dues.
 
Signed
Chike Ofili
 





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