ANA
RECEIVES N3 MILLION NAIRA GRANT FOR THE 2018 ANA/YUSUSF ALI NATIONWIDE LITERARY
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
The Association of Nigerian
Authors has secured funding for the 7th year towards the
ANA/Yusuf Ali nationwide literary awareness campaign. The Association
received the sum of N3,000,000(Three Million Million Naira) on the 5th of
February,2018 for the 2018 project from the donor, Yusuf Ali(SAN), an
Ilorin-based renowned legal practitioner, author and dedicated
philanthropist.
The Grant was first secured by the
National EXCO in 2012 and all state chapters of the Association received
sub-grants of N150,000 at various times between 2012-2014 for local literary
awareness campaigns involving secondary schools across the country. In 2015,
the grant was applied by the then National Executive Council of ANA to host a
workshop on fiction writing in Abuja in which about 25 students, drawn from
tertiary institutions across the country via a competitive process,
participated.
In 2016, the Denja Abdullahi-led
National Executive Council of ANA took the literary awareness campaign a notch
further by focusing on innovative literary awareness campaign among tertiary
institutions across the country through the States’ chapters. Chapters
submitted proposals on envisaged activities based on which they were assessed
and sub-grants finally awarded to 16 Chapters that met the provisioned
requirements. The competitive process was introduced to ensure greater
compliance to the overall project vision and to improve on the process of
monitoring, evaluation and reportage of the implemented activities. The grant
was used in 2017 to publish three (3) children’s literature titles under
the Nigerian Writers Series(NWS) which have been distributed to chapters of ANA
Nationwide to power ANA ‘s A-Book-A-Child nationwide project that was
flagged off at the ANA ‘s 36th International Convention which held
in Makurdi,Benue State in October,2017.
For the year 2018, the Yusuf Ali
grant will be deployed to facilitate a comprehensive media supplement on the
projects executed over the years since 2012 to date and a workshop for 15
selected chairmen of ANA chapters focusing on ‘innovations in contemporary
literary awareness campaigns’ to deepen the execution of the project in the
coming years.
Yusuf Ali, who in 2015 promised to
sustain the annual grant to ANA for life, is a Nigerian lawyer who received the
highest honour available to practising lawyers in 1997 when he was called to
the inner bar as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. He attended the University of
Ife [now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife] and is the Principal Partner at
the Law Firm of Yusuf O. Ali & Co in Ilorin. His reputation in the Bar has
been balanced by a deep interest in literature which has seen him supporting
the Kwara State Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors as well as serve
as an Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Bar Journal. He is also an associate
lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ilorin.
Yusuf Ali in 2017 presented a book “
Anatomy of Corruption in Nigeria” to the public in the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja . He has also been consistently hosting the National Executive
Council members of ANA and chairmen and secretaries of chapters in his office
during their annual meeting in Ilorin since 2012.
We thank the donor for his
consistent generosity in supporting Nigerian literature and we call on other
well meaning Nigerians to emulate Yusuf Ali’s gesture of support for the
literary arts.
Wole Adedoyin
Publicity Secretary (South)
Association of Nigerian Authors
15/2/2018
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