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WORLD LITERATURE The idea of a World literature might have been mooted earlier than the 20th Century. However, the concept has been readily traced to the works of Wolfgang von Goethe of Germany in the first quarter of the 20th Century. From the different submissions by scholars on his life, opinions and works, it can be deduced that Goethe's concern about prevalent acrimony and wars among European and non-European nations in his lifetime combined with his firm belief in the efficacy and immense redeeming potentiality of literature to make him conceive, propose and pursue a unifying literary practice of the global communities/nations. The literature he conceived was so important that he preached that, National literature does not mean much at present. It is time for the era of World literature and everybody must endeavour to accelerate this epoch. Goethe, 1927. In his close study of Goethe's life and work, Birus (2017) arrived at the conclusion that the Germa

Abubakar Abdul Kuta is the first producer of contemporary indigenous film in Gbagyi Language. Having produced quite a number of issue-based films in his native language, Kuta’s biggest dream is to win the OSCAR award, the world biggest entertainment award. In this interview with Abubakar Akote for The Arts-Muse Fair Blog, he speaks on various issues including allegations of sex-for-role in the Film Industry in Niger State. Enjoy. TAMF: How true is the claim that you are the first Gbagyi film actor? Kuta: I am not the first Gbagyi film actor, but, I am the first producer of contemporary Gbagyi films in Nigeria. I produced the first contemporary Gbagyi film in Nigeria. TAMF: What do you mean by contemporary films? Kuta: You know we have religious films. We don’t call those ones contemporary. So, what I mean by contemporary is that, films that cut across all aspects of the society – diverse, either as a Muslim or Christian or the Nkwa and the Mataye and the rest

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Kano State branch is set to celebrate writers and literature during her ‘Kano Literary Week’ programme.  The 3-day event is aimed at promoting literary activities in the state. The programme is scheduled to hold from Tuesday 28th – Thursday 30th November 2017. Theme : Digital Opportunities For Young Writers. It Will feature : Grand Opening Ceremony Books Exhibition Creative Writers’ Forum Literary Quiz for Secondary Schools Students Workshop on Digital Opportunity Writers’ Parley Grand Closing/Awards Presentation Keynote Speaker : Engineer Y. Z. Yau Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) Discussant : Engr. Dr. Muttaqha Rabe Darma, DSC, MNIM Pleasant Library and Book Club,

Issues In The Evaluation Of Contemporary African Literature   By Prof. Saleh Abdu. INTRODUCTION Like the stated theme of this year's ANA International Convention, although shorter, my chosen topic is broad and is designed to proffer a wide, instead of deep and argumentative, posture. This relieves me of engaging in hard and tortuous textual exegesis in the usually bent and twisted critical parlance to uphold a line of argument. Not pursuing any of today's sub-themes, I set out to explore and by so doing remind you, by highlighting, of some historical epochs and extant signposts in preceding critical evaluation of African literature. All these are presented as a prelude to assessing African literature (with)in (the comity of) World Literature(s). I hope my paper will serve sufficiently to bring to the fore of today's discourse the healthy inevitability of heterogeny in matters of global cultural discourse and the likely misplaced fallacy of homogen