ANA mourns Stella Oyedepo

ANA MOURNS STELLA OYEDEPO

 The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) mourn with the family of Stella Oyedepo who until her untimely death in a motor accident along Lagos -Sagamu expressway last Monday served as General Manager and the Chief executive Officer of the National Theatre.
Mallam Denja Abdulahi, ANA National President in a statement made available to newsmen said that Dr. Mrs. Stella Oyedepo was a thorough bred prolific playwright with serious passion for drama and a committed member of ANA .

It would be recalled that her death was announced on Monday while returning to Lagos from an official trip. Her car was said to have rammed into an articulated vehicle in Sagamu along the Benin- Ijebu-Ode Expressway.

While noting that death is an inevitable end to every mortal existence, ANA President said members of the Association were, however, consoled that late Chief Stella Oyedepo, distinguished herself as an astute and exemplary playwright while serving her country as GM and the Chief executive Officer of the National Theatre.

Mallam Denja Abdulahi prayed Almighty God to grant her eternal rest and the family, the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

Stella Moroundia Oyedepo (sometimes Stella Dia Oyedepo) (born c. 1954) is a Nigerian playwright. She died on Monday, 22nd April, 2019 in an autocrash along Shagamu-Benin Express way in Nigeria.

Oyedepo wrote over 300 plays over the course of her career; of these, only around 30 have been published. She takes as her subject daily life and problems, and her work often addresses such themes as marriage, corruption, politics, and family life. A typical example is her 1988 play The Greatest Gift, which contrasts the life of a family destroyed by the father's drunkenness with the life of a successful family. Her 2001 play Brain Has No Gender was written for the Kwara State Ministry of Education for Women-in-Science Programme. Her first play, Our Wife is Not a Woman, was written in 1979. Oyedepo's origins are from Ondo State. She trained as a linguist, and for some time in the 1980s she served as Senior Principal Leturer at the Kwara State College for Education in Ilorin. She has also served as director of the Kwara State Council for Arts and Culture. Many of her plays were commissioned for specific occasions.ANA members who attended the 1999 Convention in Ilesa and the 2000 Convention in Jos would recall the spice she added to those conventions with the performances of the Kwara State Council for Arts and Culture Troupe which she led at those periods.

ANA Felicitates with Christians at Easter

ANA FELICITATES WITH CHRISTIANS AT EASTER

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has felicitated with the entire Christian community in Nigeria on the occasion of the Easter Celebration which marks the earthly works, suffering, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.

In a goodwill message signed by the National President of ANA, Mallam Denja Abdulahi, he called on the Christians to forge greater unity irrespective of religious or ethnic differences and emulate Jesus by demonstrating love to one another and to their neighbours, just as Jesus admonished his disciples to love their neighbours as themselves..

According to the message: “As Nigerians we must eschew acts that will divide us further. We must embrace the Christ attitude of living in love and harmony with ourselves and our neighbours.

ANA stressed that the Easter celebration is an opportunity for Christians to reflect on the ultimate sacrifice done for the sake of salvation of mankind, as well as human love and peace by Jesus Christ.

Mallam Denja Abdulahi finally called on Christians to use this year celebration as a period of sober reflection to reflect on the teachings of Jesus Christ.

ANA Bayelsa: Call for contributions- Invocations for Gabriel Okara

THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS

BAYELSA STATE CHAPTER

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

FOR THE ANTHOLOGY

“INVOCATIONS FOR GABRIEL OKARA”

ANA Bayelsa is calling on the community of creative writers all over the world, to avail themselves of the opportunity to honour her GRAND PATRON, Dr. Gabriel Okara on his demise at 98 and the internment.

CONDITIONS

1.      Poems should be of excellent quality.

2.      Not exceeding one page

3.      Should be of 10 font size

4.      Font theme should be Times New Roman

5.      Send work as an MS Word attachment, or as body of mail, not PDF;

6.      No more than two pieces of writings should be submitted by a contributor.

NOTE: Violation of any of the criteria would face disqualification.

·         All contributions should be sent to the email: mariner.anabayelsa@yahoo.com

·         Send contributions not later than Tuesday, 30^th April, 2019

·         State your Name/City/State/Country/E-mail Address at the top of your submissions, over the title of your work.

·         Subject of mail should be the name of the anthology.

·         All contributions should be sent to the email: mariner.anabayelsa@yahoo.com

Mrs. Bina Nengi-Ilagha

Chairman

ANA Bayelsa

For:

Mallam Denja Abdulahi

National President, ANA

Call for Submissions on Science Fiction in celebration of NASRDA @ 20

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ON SCIENCE FICTION IN CELEBRATION OF NASRDA @ 20

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) in collaboration with the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) are calling for creative content, to be posted on NASRDA’s 20^th Anniversary Website.

Submissions should have a “Science,” “Astronomy.” “Space” or “Space-Science” theme. Submissions can also be in Poetry, prose, Science fiction, Non-Fiction, Paintings, drawing and film (documentary, musical, dramatic, etc.).

A bio note, with contact information, should accompany all submissions and posting is NOT guaranteed. Shortlisted entries will appear on NASRDA’s Special Celebratory Website-Slated to come online, any day now. Entries may be included in the digital and /or hardcopy versions of the Commemorative Anthology. This call for submissions is in celebration of NASRDA’s 20^th Anniversary dated to take place on May 5, 2019.

Interested writers can send their entries to nwspublishers2016@gmail.com and kingceiphus@gmail.com.

Signed

Wole Adedoyin

ANA PRO (SOUTH)

2019 AUTHORS' GROOVE

2019 AUTHORS' GROOVE

Are you a writer in Nigeria? Or you want to meet with writers to learn the act of professional writing. Join Nigerian writers as they converge on 8th of May to celebrate their day at Nigeria International Book Fair which will hold from 6th to 11th May at University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos. Participation is free. Don't miss NIBF 2019.