ANA Convention: Benue Poetry Troupe to present Denja Abdullahi’s Abuja Nunyi Nov. 3

 

ANA CONVENTION: BENUE POETRY TROUPE TO PRESENT DENJA ABDULLAHI’S ABUJA NUNYI NOV. 3

 

By: Wole Adedoyin: ANA PRO (South)

 

On November 3rd 2021, Benue Poetry Troupe, a Makurdi-based theatre group led by Oko Owi Ocho will be performing some poems extracted from Denja Abdulahi’s Abuja Nunyi, the many songs of the federal capital territory to the pleasure of ANA Delegates.

 

Denja Abdullahi’s Abuja Nunyi (This is Abuja) is a pictographic collection of poems that guardedly surveys the nooks and crannies of Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. The poetry volume encapsulates Abuja in its cultural alertness and descriptions of Nigeria’s dysfunctional disposition. The collection is conceived in forty-one poems segmented into six sections: “Welcome Song,” “Native Songs,” “Songs on the Lips of Modern Abuja,” “Songs the City taught Me,” “Songs of the Future,” and “Farewell Song.” Through each section, the reader is steered into some salient socio-cultural and political issues such as corruption and cultural embracement, amongst others.  The early poems in the collection are concerned with cultural venerations in the countrified scenery of Abuja.

 

The performance will take place on November 3rd, 2021 at the Chinua Achebe International Conference Centre, Mamman Vatsa Writers Village, Mpape, Abuja by 6:00PM.