The Guest Writer Session of February 23, will feature Glorious Amalu-Jack, Michal Musialowski, and Bayo Ojo, a statement by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF), Edith Yassin says.
An initiative of the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF), it holds at the Aso Hall of Nanet Suites, Ekiti House, from 4-7pm and is open to the public.
Michal Musialowski is a poet, activist, and humanist born in Poland, who is currently researching contemporary Nigerian poetry at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University in Lapai under the mentorship and guidance of Prof. Sule Emmanuel Egya, also known as E. E. Sule, and the Nigerian poet, writer, and editor, Paul Liam.
A lecturer at Leibniz University in Hannover , Germany, Musialowski’s current interest is Nigerian literature, with particular focus on poetry and art as a tool of resistance, understanding, and effective political action. He is actively involved in fostering transcultural and transcontinental dialogue, mutual exchange of experiences, and inter-human reflection on our common global citizenship and humanity.
Musialowski’s activities at the Hanoverian University range from the management and conceptualization of an international student group, “@HomeAbroad”, whose goals range from fostering support and a creative platform for students from all around the world, to the creation of a transcontinental journal, “Blank Pages,“ as a platform for free artistic and human expression for students across the globe. His dream is to contribute to a process of sensibilization toward the universality of our human struggles toward a world defined by brotherhood, awareness, and and common effort of universal unity..
Glorious Amalu-Jack made her publishing debut in December 2018, with the novella,Ended In Honour. Born in the late sixties in Mbaukwu Awka South Local Government of Anambra State,. She attended St. Paul’s Township School and Prince College of Commerce both in Jos Plateau State where she obtained First Leaving School Certificate and Senior Secondary School Certificate in 1981 and 1986 respectively.
She proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi between 1989 and 1994. She graduated with HND in Secretarial Administration and PGD Education in 2012 from Nigeria Teachers Institute Kaduna Keffi Campus.
Apart from writing she is also a professional MC, caterer and event manager, makeup artist, and also does TV presentations.
A member of the Mother’s Union & Women’s Guild and Busy Bees Society of the Anglican Church, she has four children – a girl and three boys,
Bayo Ojo,a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, features in the “Take Five”segment , where he will talk about five books that have impacted on his life.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ojo was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1978 after graduating from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1977. He obtained LL.M from the London School of Economics, University of London and later got admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Since then he has been in active Commercial law, International Law, Litigation, Mediation,Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice.
Ojo has acted as sole Arbitrator, member of arbitration panels, and as Counsel in numerous domestic and international arbitrations both at the ICC and the LCIA over the last thirty five years. He has also acted as expert witness in international arbitrations including ICSID. He has mediated on several disputes as well. He was past President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria Branch.
Ojo was until recently a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) Geneva Switzerland, Council member of the Section on Energy and Natural Resources Law of the International Bar Association,a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, Washington, DC, a member of the Panel of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands, Alternate Chairman of UNESCO Appeals Board in Paris,a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London, President of the African Users’ Council of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).He is currently the President of the African Arbitration Association.
The Guest Writer Session also features live music, a Q and A segment and a raffle-draw for books. The Abuja Writer’s Forum also runs a weekly Critique Session and a regular Creative Writing Workshop series.
