Prof. Sule E. Egya Delivers IBB University Inaugural Lecture.

Professor Sule Emmanuel Egya would Thursday afternoon, January 26, 2017 deliver the 7^th Inaugural Lecture of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai, Nigeria at the auditorium of the main campus of the University.

The Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies would be speaking on “In Praise of Dissidence: Power Relations, Artistic Creativity and Nigeria’s Democratic Process”.

       Professor Sule who is also a poet and fiction writer writes under the pen name E.E Sule. He is the author of the short story collections, Impotent Heavens and Dream and Shame. His poetry volumes are Naked Sun, Knifing Tongues and What the Sea Told Me (winner of the 2009 ANA/NDDC Gabriel Okara Poetry Prize).

      His debut novel, Sterile Sky published in 2012 by Pearson Education Ltd under its African Writers Series won the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize for Africa region.