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Founded by the late Chinua Achebe on 27th June 1981, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) is the umbrella body that caters for the interest of all the creative writers & critics in Nigeria. Towards achieving the goal of unbundling its annual international convention, the Association has decided to institute an international conference on the rigorous criticism of new, emergent or contemporary Nigerian literature. Towards achieving this, ANA has partnered with Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu- Alike Ikwo (AE-FUNAI) as the host for its international conference. AE-FUNAI was picked because of its general image as a dynamic, hospitable, art and literary-friendly institution with a burgeoning humanistic ethos. Conference THEME: EXPANDING FRONTIERS: NIGERIA’S CREATIVE WRITING IN THE 21ST CENTURY  The Expanding Frontiers conference provides scholars the opportunity to articulate as well as interrogate these new trends and the stylistic evolutions of Nigeria

LONDON .-   Christie’s  announced the results achieved for the palimpsest of a Qur’an copied onto a Christian text, realising £596,790 during the Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction. As Lot 1 of the sale, this remarkable manuscript dates to the earliest period of Islam. The leaves from these folios derive from an earlier Coptic manuscript containing passages from the Book of Deuteronomy, which is part of the Torah and the Christian Old Testament. It was very probably produced in Egypt, home to the Coptic community, at the time of the Arab conquest. This appears to be the only recorded example of a Qur ' an written above a Christian text, and the importance of this manuscript resonates with the historical reality of religious communities in the Near East and as such is an invaluable survival from the earliest centuries of Islam. Source:  ArtDaily Newspaper

The Alfred Fried Photography Award is pleased to announce the 2018 edition. For the second time organizers also call for entries to  the Children Peace Image of the Year. Take part if you are 14 years or younger! The honorary chair for the Children Peace Image of the Year is Waris Dirie, a committed human rights activist. The Award is supported by the  German Youth Photography Award . Entry is free of charge. Prizes: The  five best works  of the  Alfred Fried Photography Award  and the winner of the  Children Peace Image of the Year  will be honoured with the  Alfred Fried Photography Award Medal,  the photographers will be invited to attend the award ceremony in Vienna on 20 September 2018, with travel expenses and accommodation paid. The overall winner  Peace Image of the Year  will receive a  cash price of € 10,000. The Peace Image of the Year will be shown for one year in the Austrian Parliament and will be included in the permanent art collection of the Austrian Pa

The Editing Room: Critical Writing Workshop Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. www.ccalagos.org Initiated by CCA Lagos’ Associate Curator,  Iheanyi Onwuegbucha and Led by Paris-based French and English curator and Writer, Caroline Hancock. The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, invites young curators, art writers, critics, and practitioners involved in (or interested in becoming more involved in) art criticism and curating to a series of critical writing workshops that will take place throughout 2018. This forms an important part of the 12-month long programme to celebrate CCA, Lagos’ 10th anniversary. The workshops are designed to highlight recent shifts and activities in cultural production and in turn provide participants with tools to generate critical responses to a dynamic and vibrant art sector. The different sessions of the workshop will be led by seasoned professionals with a focus on strengthening participants' critical skills, especially in creat

MIND POLICE A puppeteer of my mind you bewilder my every thought The good and bad you bind And sail to your cessation court My intuitions become blind And for your directions I sort. A conjurer of my emotions I'm so subsumed in your shadow My instincts are open to seductions To your lead I now follow My psyche yearning for solutions As my sanity is carved hollow You invade my delicate sentience And arrest my fickle conscience My wit is devoid of patience It bows to your seductive presence Like was drowned the Pharaoh of yore who was full of incense   Only divinity can end for me this bleak sentence    ********** Abdulsamad Papilo is a budding poet. He holds a Bsc. Economic from Ahmadu Bello University  Zaria. He was born in 1993 and raised in Kaduna State, Nigeria. His hobbies are writing, reading, playing board games and listening to good music.  

Book : From Caves of Rotten Teeth Author : A. Igoni Barrett Publisher : Daylight Media Ltd. 2005 Reviewer : Nana Sule From Caves of Rotten Teeth (Short Stories) There are fourteen stories in this book. What each story does is not to immerse the reader in a world where he is marveled by some artistry, but to help the reader recognize their self in them. The stories explore adultery, unemployment, poverty, violence and the everyday circumstances that can arise from living in Nigeria at this time. Although set in 2005, these stories are more a reflection of how sadly, as a nation, the country is still flying on sore wings. While each story is written with careful narration, simple sentences and matching metaphors, Th ey would be Swine is the one that hits home. Never had the Nigerian Police checkpoints and the simple waste of time and domineering nature of armed men been better portrayed. There, in that one narration, lay the summation of all that is w

The second edition of the annual Nigerian Festival of Teen Artists (NIFESTEENA) earlier scheduled to hold next week in Kaduna, Kaduna state has been postponed to next month. It will now hold from May 6 to 9, 2018. A statement from the Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation, organizer of the festival, explained that the postponement was to accommodate the interests of secondary school students currently on vacation.   The first edition of the festival held last year in Minna, Niger state. NIFESTEENA is a platform where Nigerian teen artists who are students or pupils and aged no more than 20-yrs annually converge to display their talents through contests, exhibitions and discourses.   BM Dzukogi, Founder - HilloTop Crative Arts Foundation The festival draws participants from all over Nigeria to compete for prizes in the categories of poetry writing, short story writing, painting and photography. Other categories are spoken word, performance poetry, folksong, English son