IMAGES FROM 2021 AUTHORS’ GROOVE ORGANIZED BY ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Mabel Segun, Akachi Ezeigbo, Lola Akande, Others to headline 2021 Authors’ Groove AT INT’L Book Fair
MABEL SEGUN, AKACHI EZEIGBO, LOLA AKANDE, OTHERS TO HEADLINE 2021 AUTHORS’ GROOVE AT INT’L BOOK FAIR
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has set aside 29th July, 2021 for its annual Authors’ Groove event. The educative event will be hosting one of ANA’s living Trustee Members, Mabel Segun. It will also be hosting the current Chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, Prof. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, others like, Lola Akande, Betty Ige, Sarah Rotimi, Edozie Udeze, C.M. Okonkwo, Kunnu Taiwo and Micheal Abiodun as Guest Speakers.
The theme for this year Authors' Groove is “Women at the Centre Stage: the Nigerian Stories" and the venue of the event is Function Room D, Hall B, Habour Point, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The book fair organized by Nigeria Book Fair Trust of which ANA is a Council member and one of the constituent bodies will also have ANA maintaining an exhibition stand throughout the duration of the fair (July. 26th - 29th, 2021.) where it will hold a daily literary clinic for the benefit of aspiring authors and members. The event promises to be an avenue for book exhibition, reading and networking. ANA members in and around Lagos are enjoined to attend the Authors' Groove and be at the fair ground.
The programmme will be anchored by Olatunbosun Taofeek, former National Publicity Secretary (South) of the Association.
ANA Holds 2021 Edition of Authors’ Groove July 29
ANA HOLDS 2021 EDITION OF AUTHORS’ GROOVE JULY 29
By Wole Adedoyin (ANA PRO (South)
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Lagos State Chapter, on behalf of the National Executive Council of ANA, will host a literary and reading event for writers called Authors’ Groove during the Nigerian International Book Fair holding on Thursday, July 29, 2021 at the Function Room D, Hall B. The theme for this year Authors' Groove is “Women at the Centre Stage: the Nigerian Stories".
Guest Speakers expected at the event include: Mabel Segun, Akachi Adimira-Ezeigbo, Lola Akande, Betty Ige, Sarah Rotimi, Edozie Udeze, C.M. Okonkwo, Kunnu Taiwo and Micheal Abiodun.
The programmme will be anchored by Olatunbosun Taofeek, a former National Publicity Secretary (South) of the Association.
The book fair organized by Nigeria Book Fair Trust of which ANA is a Council member and one of the constituent bodies will also have ANA maintaining an exhibition stand throughout the duration of the fair (July. 26th - 29th, 2021.) where it will hold a daily literary clinic for the benefit of aspiring authors and members. The event promises to be an avenue for book exhibition, reading and networking. ANA members in and around Lagos are enjoined to attend the Authors' Groove and be at the fair ground.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Literary Agents Will Boost Book Business In Nigeria –Akande
Literary Agents Will Boost Book Business In Nigeria
–Akande
By Yemi Adebisi-May 13, 2018
Abdullahi
(left), Eghagha (second left), Akande (second right) and Ozoagu Amana during
the conference.
The Association of Nigerian Authors
(ANA) has been urged to take up the responsibility of literary agent to enhance
the growth of book industry in Nigeria.
Speaking on Friday May 11, 2018 on
the theme: Literary Agency and the Promotion of the Author’s Craft and
Business, at the just concluded Nigeria International Book Fair, Dr. Lola
Akande, the guest speaker said Nigerian publishers have frustrated most authors
either by rejecting their manuscripts or failure to pay royalties to those that
are fortunate to be published.
The annual Author’s Groove, one of
the most fascinating sessions of the international book fair, held at
Multipurpose Hall, University of Lagos, was attended by writers across the
country.
Akande, a senior lecturer and one
time winner of ANA’s prose prize, stressed that in advanced countries, literary
agents hunt for good writers and pay royalties to works that are yet to be
published. According to her, the agent, not only publishes the book but market
and run competitive publicity for the authors unlike in the Nigeria setting.
“The role of a literary agent is to
sell saleable material. Literary agents search for new writers and they are
often prepared to take immense pains with a writer whose work, in their
opinion, shows potential quality or distinctive promise. Agents do not teach
people how to write. Every writer must expect disappointments at the outset of
their career, but if they have something to say and know how to say it, and
they are patient, eventually, they may learn how to satisfy an editor’s
requirements,” she said.
Chairman of the occasion, Professor
Hope Eghagha, head of English department, University of Lagos said all hands
must be on deck to safe the country from its various challenges especially with
the poor reading culture and menace of social media among the youth.
National president of ANA, Denja
Abdullahi assured the reading public and Nigerian authors for coalition with
relevant stakeholders to achieve this valiant initiative.
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