The Arts-Muse Fair

The congress of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Niger State Chapter, has fixed Saturday, 23 September, 2017 for election of a new state executive to take over from the Hamza Kamar Caretaker Committee. Elections are to hold by 10:00am at the Niger State Book and Other Intellectual Resources Development Agency, Minna, Niger state. It would be recalled that following a protracted leadership crisis in the chapter two years ago, the national Executive of ANA dissolved the two contending state executives in September last year and inaugurated a 3-man caretaker committee to reconcile the feuding groups and restore peace and amity to the chapter. Announcing the election date last Saturday at the chapter’s weekly meeting, the Chairman Caretaker Committee, Kamar Hamza said that the election is due to be conducted before the upcoming national convention to allow the chapter to be led to the convention by a formally elected executive. Subsequently, the congress

It was a feast of delicious poetry last Saturday at the weekly meeting of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA)   Niger State chapter when the Writers’ group hosted a teen writer from Himma International College, Minna. Zainab Salihu, 17, read her deeply reflective poems with a trenchant voice to the admiration of ANA members.   Prior to her reading at the ANA meeting, her mentor, Mr. Yunusa MC had read her poem entitled ‘ Luck is a fool' at a previous meeting which sparked a wild debate over the deftly worded poem that touched on a highly political theme. This earned her an invitation to come and read her poems to ANA members at the request of Mr. Nurdin Busari the CEO of Amab Books, with a pledge to publish her if she could justify that the writings are original to her. Zainab Salihu at her ANA Niger Reading Well, she came, she read and she won a publishing contract with Amab Books! Upon reciting  only four poems from her collection, she won membe