ASSOCIATION
OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS
DENJA
ABDULAHI’S SCORECARD OF PRAGMATIC DELIVERABLES
FROM
OCTOBER 2017-OCTOBER 2018
OCTOBER
2017
1.
ANA successfully held a well-attended
and very memorable 36th Anniversary Convention in Makurdi hosted by
the Benue State Government from the 27-30 October, 2017.
2.
ANA National Executive Council led by
the President visited Federal University Ndufu-Alikwe Ikwo to meet the Vice
Chancellor over the proposed partnership on criticism conference, attended
Prof. Akachi Ezeigbo’s book launch and to inaugurate the Young Writers
Mentorship Scheme within the University from 8-9 November, 2017.
3.
ANA organized a panel in partnership
with CORA on the dearth of literary criticism in contemporary literary sphere
at the Lagos Book and Arts Festival (LABAF) of the Committee of Relevant Arts
(CORA) in November, 2017. Three writers of the Nigerian Writers Series 2 books
were also sponsored by ANA to participate in the Children’s Green Festival
component anchored by Sola Alamutu.
4.
ANA Attended the 2017 Gombe Day of
Literature organized by Halimafactor Initiative and sponsored the prizes for
the Junior Category Poetry Awards under its Young Writers Mentorship Scheme.
The event held on the 23rd of November, 2017 at Gombe, Gombe State.
5.
ANA participated in the drafting of the
MOU between the National Library of Nigeria and the National Library of Norway
on the digitization of literary text written in the Nigerian indigenous
languages in December, 2017.
6.
ANA donated 100 volumes of contemporary
literary texts to the library of the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Ondo
State in December, 2017.
7.
ANA participated in the National
Conference on Quality Education: Access and Rights Management in Nigeria
organized by REPRONIG and Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian
Universities in Lagos on 27 November, 2017.
JANUARY
– OCTOBER, 2018
1.
ANA nominated two persons (Khalid Imam
of ANA Kano and Claris Ujams of ANA Abuja) to participate in the Global Book
Alliance Regional Meeting organized by the Association for the Development of
Education in Africa (ADEA) which held in Abdijan, Coted’Ivoire from 22-24
January, 2018.
2.
Rising from its 3rd inaugural
meeting of 20th January, 2018 at Abuja, ANA established two
committees: Constitutional Review Committee and Intellectual Property
Protection and Advancement Committee.
3.
ANA donated 100 volumes of books to
Terkule Aorabee for a reading and writing workshops in two LGAs in Taraba
state.
4.
ANA’s documentary film “Dancing Mask”
was screened in West African Films Festival held in February, 2018 in Houston,
Texas in the U.S.A.
5.
ANA President attended and presented a
paper at the African Union 1st Pan African Writers’ Conference which
held in Accra, Ghana from 7-9 March, 2018.
6.
Elections were held in the following ANA
Chapters: Edo, Ebonyi, Benue, Niger, Abuja, Rivers, Plateau, Katsina, Taraba
and Yobe.
7.
ANA organized a poetry performance Night
(second in the series) at the Nzeh Mada Festival which held in Akwanga on 31st
March, 2018.
8.
ANA facilitated the participation of 10
indigenous language writers from Nigeria in the Association for the Development
of Education in Africa’s “Enabling Writers: Bloom software Training of Trainers
Workshop” which held in Abuja from 17-20 April, 2018.
9.
ANA attended the Prof. Joe Ushie @ 60 Conference
in Calabar, Cross-River State, Prof. Sam Ukala @ 70 retirement celebration and
launching of a festschrift in his honour in Abraka and the 25th
anniversary ICALEL Conference at the University of Calabar, all in April, 2018.
10.
ANA held its Capacity Building Workshop
for National officers and selected 15 state Executive Council Members on “Innovations
in Contemporary Literary Awareness Campaigns in Nigeria” which held in Ilorin,
Kwara, state on the 21st April, 2018.
11.
The 7th Meeting of the
National Executive Council Members with State Chapters’ Chairmen and
Secretaries held in Ilorin Kwara, state on the 21st April, 2018.
12.
ANA undertook a media supplement on the
ANA/Yusuf Ali literary Awareness Campaign (2012-2018) in various newspapers and
on-line blogs between March April, 2018.
13.
ANA held the “Authors’ Grove” at the
Nigerian International Book Fair at University of Lagos under the theme “Literary
agency and the Promotion of the Authors’ Craft and Business,” on the 11th
of May, 2018.
14.
ANA held its maiden International
Conference/Creative workshop in partnership with Alex Ekwueme Federal
University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo with the theme “Expanding Frontiers: Nigeria’s
Creative Writing in the 21st Century, from the 18-19 June, 2018.
15.
ANA donated 200 volumes of books to the
Library of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alikwe Ikwo in June, 2018.
16.
ANA participated in the State Funeral
given to the Late Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers’ Association
(PAWA), Prof. Atukwei Okai which held in Accrea, Ghana on the 14th
of September, 2018.
17.
Fast tracking of development of the ANA
Land in Mpape, Abuja within a period of a year.
