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by: "denja abdullahi" denjabb@yahoo.com   denjabb Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:02 am (PST)     PRESS RELEASE        (Published & unpublished works)  2009 ANA LITERARY PRIZES: CALL FOR ENTRIES   Nigerian writers, at home and abroad, willing to enter their new works for the  Annual Literary Prizes of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.