Monday, September 08, 2008

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





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From the Chairman's Desk
 
Dear writer and journalist,
 
The Centre of Excellence chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors(ANA) Lagos will be holding it Saturday September 13 reading as uaual.
 
First Segment: 2pm . 3pm
- Works in progress
- Public presentation and celebration of new books
 
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 he 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 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
 
Please be very early, and come with your dues.
 
Signed
Chike Ofili
 






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