Leadership (Abuja)
10 November 2008
Writers in Nigeria seem to have had a good time this year. It is true they have been given a bloody nose in Kano where censors tried to regiment them through individual registration and censoring of their books in the name of cultural preservation, but, by and large, it has been a great year. The 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has been well celebrated in five cities in the country as well as around the world. Cyprian Ekwensi has been immortalised by the FCT Administration in Abuja. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila, among other writers, have won international laurels.
It is in this vein that we see the 27th annual convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors, which ended in Gusau on Sunday, as the icing on the cake. A million thanks to the Zamfara State government for fully supporting the writers; it virtually overstretched itself to host them. Other states and institutions will do well to support the arts, for it is in doing so that our cultural values could be uplifted and advanced.
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