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.