GHANA ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS (GAW) CONGRATULATES CAMILLUS UKAH ON HIS EMERGENCE AS ANA PRESIDENT
The National Working Committee of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) has congratulated Camilus Chima Ukah on his emergence as the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
Ghana Association of Writers, in the congratulatory message dated 26th of July, 2020 and signed by its National President, Francis Gbormittah, stressed on the existing bond between GAW and ANA and hoped that the new leadership of ANA will maintain the close working relationship.
According to him: “The President and National Executive Committee join the membership of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) in sending its congratulations to you on your election as the National President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). Our congratulations also go to your fellow executive members with whom, together with you, we hope to work closely with during your tenure of office. The relations between GAW and ANA were recently rekindled, exemplified by your predecessor Mr. Denja Abdulahi’s attendance at our national book festival (GAWBOFEST) in Accra in September 2016, and subsequently the attendance of our 1st Deputy Organising Secretary (now Deputy General Secretary) Mr. Kofi Marrah at ANA’s National Convention in Abuja in October 2016. We keenly look forward to similar exchanges in the future.”
The message further read, “It is fitting that our two associations continue to consolidate the strong mutual bonds forged by the pioneering members, a number of whom became world famous writers soon after our countries gained their political independence from the same colonial master. It is hoped that even during this period of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can collaborate on mutually beneficial programmes.”
“I and my colleagues on the National Executive Committee of GAW look forward to further deepening these fraternal bonds between our two associations in the expectation that they would lead to greater collaborations between Nigerian and Ghanaian novelists, poets and playwrights in the years to come.
It would be recalled that Mr. Camillus Chima Ukah, former Vice President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) between 2015-2019 was on 18th July, 2020 elected National President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) in accordance with the ANA constitution and COVID-19 protocol of the Federal Government of Nigeria. The event which took place in Makurdi the Benue state Capital had in physical attendance members from state branches of ANA across the nation while many other ANA members joined the meeting via zoom including Prof Olu Obafemi, former ANA President, Dr. Wale Okediran former ANA President, Prof Remi Raji former ANA President , Prof Akachi Ezeigbo, multiple award-winning writer and distinguished literary scholar.
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