The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has said this year’s convention, themed ‘Literature, Nationalism and the Poetics of National Integration’ will hold on October 31 to November 3 2019.
This was contained in a release signed by the National President of ANA, Malam Denja Abdullahi and its General Secretary Dr. Ofonime Inyang.
The association said the Yusuf Ali Literary Campaign initiative this year will be open to chapters with innovative literary programmes and projects involving educational institutions in the host states and with the collaboration of key stakeholders in the field. That such chapters must also have complied with the membership database documentation project.
Also, that chapters that have failed to conduct elections or change its leadership for many years and those that are moribund are mandated to handover the leadership to sole administrators to be appointed by the National Executive Council who will be mandated to conduct elections and get the chapters back to operation within three months.
In addition, ANA urged the federal government to ensure strict adherence to due process, rule of law and the constitution of Nigeria in the general elections and advised politicians to go about their campaigns and electioneering in ways that will not release further heat on the polity and allow the will of the people to be expressed at the polls to prevail.
Last year’s ANA convention, which took place in Lagos, was themed ‘Literature, Megacities and Mega-narratives’.
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