Association of Nigerian Authors, Rivers State Branch

 By Raphael Edookue, Publicity Secretary, ANA Rivers. Reading culture will not die as long as we keep doing our best to supply it the needed oxygen. Every year, Barr. Yusuf Ali, SAN, supplies some oxygen to reading culture through the Association of Nigeria Authors (ANA), the latter distributes this oxygen to different secondary schools in Nigeria via her: ANA/YUSUF ALI LITERARY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN. Yesterday (20th September, 2022), the Rivers State branch of ANA held her campaign at Olobo Premier College, Choba, Port Harcourt and schools and students smiled home with prizes in the quiz and reading competitions respectively. The schools that participated in the program also returned with hundreds of copies of literary texts donated by iconic Nigerian writers through the ANA 40,000 books program. In what was a very stiff intellectual battle among the competing schools, the quiz competition saw Methodist Comprehensive High School, D-Line, Port Harcourt, emerged winner of the prize. Th...

By Raphael Edookue (Publicity Secretary, ANA Rivers)  In what will be an amazing literary partnership for the decade, and a demonstration of literary friendliness by Prof. Nlerum Okogbule (Vice-Chancellor of Rivers State University), the Rivers state branch of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA Rivers) and Riv ers State University (RSU) have started a superb partnership in the area of creative writing to celebrate literary excellence while also reawakening the literary consciousness of  literary enthusiasts and budding creative writers in Rivers State, Nigeria, and beyond. This partnership has birthed what is now called: ANA/RSU International Conference on Creative Writing and the theme for this year's conference is: ELECHI AMADI, LITERATURE AND THE NIGERIAN SOCIO-POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. Other sub-themes include: Elechi Amadi's world view: Culture, Religion and Ideology, Elechi Amadi's writings and the environment, Politics and Elechi Amadi's writings, The Poetry a...