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3 Igbo Women To Receive Award At The 9th Coal City Book Convention

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In recognition of the role of women in the world of literature, three women who have distinguished themselves as achievers in the Eastern part of Nigeria are set to be crowned with the Olaudah Equiano Life Time Award at the upcoming 9 th annual Coal City Book convention in Enugu, the Enugu State capital. A statement by Dillibe Onyeama, organizer of the Coal City Book Convention, lists the awardees as Revered Dame Dorothy Obi, Mrs. Dame Veronica Mogboh, and Mrs. Dame Bridget Orjiekwe who have distinguished themselves as Librarian, Educationist and Administrator respectively. The convention which is scheduled to hold from 14th to 16th November, 2017 at Enugu's apex relaxation paradise, the Peekay Gardens,  has the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria (Enugu Campus), Professor Ifeoma Pamela Enemo as the keynote speaker on the theme: Women Empowerment: The Richness of the Female Character in Story-telling. 

Interview: Authors Nowadays Are Lacking In Imaginative Flair. – Dillibe Onyeama.

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Growing up in the 1980s, my young mind mostly burrowed in my father’s modest collection of books at home whenever I was not out playing with friends. It was always easy for me to mark out, at a glance, books published by Dillibe Onyeama’s Delta Publications (Nigeria) Ltd from books by other Nigerian Publishers – aesthetics!. Perhaps because he was first an author (with works such as Nigger at Eton, Sex is a Nigger’s Game, Night Demon, Secret Society, Revenge of the Medicine man ) before fully taking up publishing, his books come in high quality paper, inimitable creative cover designs and readable text prints that showed they were printed outside Nigeria. He was Abubakar Gimba’s first publisher, enjoying the distinction of releasing the late novelist’s debut novel, A Trial of Sacrifice in 1985 and many others that followed. He marketed Gimba’s works with panache, describing him as “the Northern answer to Achebe and Soyinka”.   But that is a story from the dying years of the l