The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) will on Friday holds her first ever literary awareness capacity building workshop in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State.
According to a statement signed by its National President, Mallam Denja Abdulahi, the workshop targets 15 selected chairmen of ANA chapters and national executive council members.
“It will focus on ‘innovations in contemporary literary awareness campaigns’ in order to deepen the execution of the project in the coming years.
“The workshop will also have as four journalists as participants and will be facilitated by Dr Awake Okediran, Izuchukwu Okeke and Mrs Funmi Ilori,” the statement read.
Special Guest of Honour at the workshop will be the Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University, Prof. AbdulRasheed NA”Allah and Yusuf Ali( SAN).
It would be recalled that ANA secured the 2018 ANA/Yusuf Ali nationwide literary awareness campaign grant of N3,000,000 in early February this year from Yusuf Ali (SAN), an Ilorin-based legal practitioner, author and philanthropist.
Though the first phase of the grant has been deployed to facilitate a comprehensive media supplement on the projects executed over the years since 2012 to date.
The statement hinted that since the inception of the grant in 2012, it had been channelled towards the promotion of literature across the state chapters of the association, including the publication of of three children’s literature titles under the Nigerian Writers Series (NWS).
Abdullahi further disclosed that the books had been distributed across the chapters of the association to power ANA‘s ‘A-Book-A-Child’ nationwide project, flagged off last year at the 36th International Convention of the association in Makurdi, Benue state.
Speaking on the donor, Abdullahi said, “Since Yusuf Ali in 2015 promised to sustain the annual grant to ANA for life, it is incumbent on ANA to continue to innovate to make the project impactful from year to year.”
