ANA Relaunches Improved Website

ANA RELAUNCHES IMPROVED WEBSITE

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) announced it has relaunched its website at www.ana-nigeria.com with a modern technology platform that provides new tools for members and easier access for users of smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The redesigned site incorporates a number of significant changes, increasing functionality and providing ANA members with a reliable and informative hub for ANA news and developments.

This was contained in a press statement issued and signed by the General Secretary of ANA, Mr. Maik Ortserga in Makurdi, Benue state capital yesterday.

In keeping with the Association’s strategic blueprint and mission, the brand-new site features simplified content, clear navigation, and a responsive layout for multiple platforms. It also incorporates a playful, vibrant look to reflect ANA’s new brand identity.

The site’s new interface and reader-friendly content vastly improves the user experience, making it easier for members to find – and benefit from resources and information about ANA events and programs. Elements include an enhanced member profile and member directory that is searchable by category and member type.

“Our main goal was to create a site that serves and supports all members, by providing them with the tools they need to be informed as duly registered members of the Association. This is the most significant major technology upgrade on the ANA website in nearly eight years. The website creates a foundation for future growth and strengthens the association’s position as the leading voice and resource for ANA members in Nigeria. The multimedia website will be managed by both the national PRO (South), Wole Adedoyin and the national PRO (North), Umar Yogiza. The website will continue to provide information and updates on ANA’s forthcoming plans, initiatives and events”.

The release further said that the website now uses an innovative software development approach called ‘response design’ that automatically recognizes the kind of device a visitor is using and renders a page that fits the dimensions of the device. Mobile phone users, for example, will see a home page that features links to the latest news, website content, and membership document of the association. The site also featured advanced new search technology that will enable users to find content more easily.

The ANA website is being technically managed and hosted by Boldscholar Ltd , an ICT and multimedia company that ANA has been in partnership with for the past 4 years.

HEAR ACHEBE SPEAKING TO US

HEAR ACHEBE SPEAKING TO US

In his art of story telling, Chinua Achebe in "THINGS FALL APART  presents to the reader conflict between illusion and reality. Unoka, Okonkwo's father, represents reality while Okonkwo simply passes for those in the world of illusion. Achebe showcases Unoka as an unsuccessful man in Umuofia. The oracle even identifies his undoing as laziness. 

Okonkwo, on the other hand, hates  and opposes anything his father stands for; he feels ashamed of his father and does not hide it. In order not to be accused of taking after his father, Okonkwo lives a life of 'self illusion' which is characterised by fear and arrogance to create a 'false image' of himself. He also sees signs of laziness in his son Nwoye and to purge himself of the reminder of his father, he nags and beats Nwoye daily.

Okonkwo's hatred for his father, continues till death. He dishonours Unoka even in death. Okonkwo refuses to expiate his dead father when he accidentally kills Ezeudu's son at his burial. According to Okonkwo, 'the demand on the living to satisfy the dead is fundamentally wrong'. 

Achebe uses the scenario that plays out between Unoka and his son Okonkwo to teach Africans morality. The fact remains that, it is absolutely wrong in our clime to dishonour one's parents and elders generally. The consequences of such behaviour are no doubt, devastating. Okonkwo lives a very successful life unlike his father. He is wealthy, famous, the strongest of all men in Umuofia and has three wives as well as many children. Unfortunately, despite all the success, he remains unstable and unhappy with his entire life ruled by fear. Okonkwo is equally not celebrated by his kinsmen but feared. He is also not honoured in Umuofia obviously in return for despising his late father. In the end, he does not have a title and as well could pass for, an 'agbala' just like his father Unoka.

The import of this analogy is to remind us, especially young people today, that there are elders in every society who, oftentimes, are in the position to decide the order things should take for the good of the society. It should be noted that the success of every young person, to a large extent, depends on wise counsel from parents or elders. It takes respect for old age for a younger person to receive the baton  of leadership from his elders.  The Bible is therefore, right to admonish us to honour our parents so that we too might live long. 

A scenario played out in Makurdi recently where a renowned literary critic, academic and politician, Professor David Ker, told a group of members of the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, who went to his Makurdi residence to pay him homage the story of Okonkwo and his father Unoka with respect to the way and means the literary body is being torn apart along factional interests. The don was particularly surprised with the way some emerging writers were insulting every  notable ANA member in the name of the Association's politics. He went further to commend those who realise that if ANA members were in disarray, they should first seek their elders' counsel before contemplating a legal action. 

Professor Ker said he appreciates the ANA members led by Camilus Uka who paid him homage in Makurdi. He admonished the Camilus Uka led ANA national executives not to join issues with anyone but remain focused on the things that could advance the cause of the literary body in Nigeria. The former Vice Chancellor of Benue State University, Makurdi wished Mr. Uka and other members of his exco well.

What Professor Ker did as a renowned literary critic was to remind ANA members that Achebe is speaking to his fellow writers in his novel THINGS FALL APART using Okonkwo and his father Unoka. It, therefore, behoves ANA members to listen carefully so as to discern and benefit from this valuable message.

Charles Iornumbe PhD

25/07/2020

Why Akogun Tai Oguntayo, a self-acclaimed General Secretary of ANA should stop deceiving and misleading ANA members

WHY AKOGUN TAI OGUNTAYO, A SELF-ACCLAIMED GENERAL SECRETARY OF ANA SHOULD STOP DECEIVING AND MISLEADING ANA MEMBERS

The Attention of the National Secretariat of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has been drawn to a list entitled “List of Committees with their names as submitted by Chapter Leadership across the Country.”This list is being circulated with an attempt to imbue it with authority by misappropriating the names of those in position of trust in ANA.  The purported list, which is being shared on several ANA platforms appears to indicate that it originates from the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Secretariat. I want to state here, categorically, that THIS IS WHOLLY UNTRUE as some discerning writers have already disassociated themselves from the deceptive list in which their names appeared without their consent.  THAT DOCUMENT DOES NOT ORIGINATE FROM ANA SECRETARIAT. To the creators of such falsehood, we offer a simple message “AKOGUN TAI OGUNTAYO, WHO HAS BEEN EXPELLED FROM ANA IS NOT, WILL NOT AND CAN NEVER BE IN CHARGE OF ANA SECRETARIAT. Those interested in ANA affairs should refer to the National Executive Council put in place by ANA congress as directed by the Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).

Signed

 

MAIK ORTSERGA

General Secretary

 

Meet Denja Abdulahi, the immediate past National President of ANA

MEET DENJA ABDULAHI, THE IMMEDIATE PAST NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF ANA

 

Denja Abdullahi, poet, playwright, literary essayist and culture technocrat was born exactly 51 years ago, on the 27th day of August, 1969 at Idah, Kogi State, Nigeria.

He has been writing poetry for over three decades since his days as a student of English and literature at the University of Jos, Nigeria, where he was the best graduating student of the 1990 set. He also has a Masters in Literature-in-Englis­h, acquired at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria in 1992.

His poems and other literary pieces have appeared in anthologies such as A Volcano of Voices (1999), Uncle Bola’s Promise (2003), Confluence Blues (2004) Abuja Acolytes (2000) Five Hundred Nigerian Poets (2005), Camouflage (2006) Crossroads, (2008) Pyramids (2008), Fireflies, (2009), Agogo (2009) and in several other newspapers, reviews, journals and magazines. His first published poetic volume Mairogo: a Buffoon’s Poetic Journey around Northern Nigeria (2001) received honourable mention for the prestigious ANA/CADBURY 2001 Poetry Prize.

Denja Abdullahi published two poetry volumes in 2008, The Talking Drum (February, 2008) and Abuja Nunyi (This is Abuja)(May,2008). His other published works are A Thousand Years of Thirst( 2011), Hajj Poems( 2014) and Death and the King’s Grey Hair and other Plays(2014).He also co-edited the book Themes Fall Apart But The Centre Holds , published in 2009 in commemoration of the 50 years Anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, which was celebrated worldwide in 2008 and Arrows or Gods? Critical Essays on the Leadership Question in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God published in 2017.

Denja Abdullahi has just published two volumes of his collected newspaper interviews on arts, literary and cultural administration entitled On His Turf Vol 1(2015) and Vol.II(2019). In February 2019, Denja Abdullahi co-edited a book of Tributes entitled For Ikeogu , For Poetry.

Denja Abdullahi has held several Executive Council positions in the Association of Nigerian Authors(ANA). He is arguably the only member of ANA who has served the Association in various official capacities for an unbroken span of 26 years! This matchless record makes him worthy and deserving of the fitting sobriquet, the Chief Servant of Nigerian writers. He was the founding Chairman of the Kebbi State chapter of ANA from 1993-1998 when he was a lecturer at the Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin-Kebbi. After relocating to Abuja, he held several positions at the Abuja Branch at various times from 1998-2001. After his ANA Abuja service, he went ahead to seek and win elections into practically all the critical positions there are in the national Executive body of ANA from 2001 to date.

Stepping onto the national level in 2001, he first offered his service as a National Ex-officio at the 2001 national convention and election which he won and served from 2001-2003.

 

Subsequently, he got elected as Assistant General-Secretary (20­03-2005), General-Secretary( 2005-2009), and Vice-President (2011 -2015). In November 2015, at the 34th Annual International Convention which held in Kaduna, he was elected as President of ANA. He received a re-election for a second term of 2 years at the 36th International convention of the Association which held in Makurdi ,Benue State, Nigeria in October 2017. Come October this year at ANA's 38th national convention to hold in Enugu, Denja Abdullahi shall take a glorious bow as ANA President and handover to a new president to be elected at the convention.

Since his assumption of office as the President of ANA in 2015, he has brought greater visibility to the organization with resourceful and impactful programmes and projects across the country. He was in 2009 appointed as the Manager, Operations, Abuja Carnival after having consulted for the Carnival since its inception in 2005. In 2015, Denja Abdullahi’ s play Death and the King’s Grey Hair won the SONTA/Chris Iyimoga Master Playwright Prize. The same play was in 2018 shortlisted for the 2018 Nigerian Prize for Literature administered by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas company (NLNG).

The influence of his teachers such as the late Professor Ngwaba, Prof. Olu Obafemi and Late Dr Pius Dada engendered his love for poetry. Consequently, he is keen in mentoring other writers, discovering talents and positioning new writers for opportunities and recognition, and by so doing furthering the cause of literature, and ensuring its development. He is a firm subscriber to popular and accessible poetry.

Denja Abdullahi, apart from teaching and other public service vocations, has also practiced active journalism with The News/A.M News/Tempo group in the mid 90s. Denja Abdullahi, playwright and theatre director, currently works at The National Council for Arts and Culture as a Director, Performing Arts, deployed in 2014 to the Bauchi Zonal Directorate of the Organisation. He has attended international literary festivals, conferences and residencies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Senegal, Gambia, South Korea and the USA. He is a UNESCO certified expert and facilitator on Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

 

Source – www.thearts-musefair.com

 

SCORECARD OF PRAGMATIC DELIVERABLES- 2015-2019: THE        DENJA ABDULLAHI’S ANA PRESIDENCY AT A GLANCE

 

On November 14, 2015 at the 34^th International Annual Convention of ANA held in Kaduna, the 2015-2017 National Executive Council was elected with Mallam Denja Abdullahi as the President and in October 2017, at the 36^th International Annual Convention held in Makurdi, the 2017-2019 National Executive Council was elected with Mallam Denja Abdullahi again as the President. The following are the delivery of both National Executive Councils under the leadership of Denja Abdullahi in the last four years:

 

2016.

 

• ·        Formation of strategic councils, panels and committees at its inaugural meeting held on the 9^th of January, 2015 in Abuja to fast track the delivery of the Association’s objectives. The council and committees are: The ANA National Advisory Council (first of its kind in the history of the Association and made up of 3 former presidents and 2 other elders of the Association); ANA Strategic Plan Development Committee; ANA Land Development Committee and ANA literary Prizes Adjudication Panel.
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• ·        The National Executive Council re-worked the process of accessing the annual Yusuf Ali grant by  ANA Chapters by calling for proposals which was assessed, leading to the award of grants to 16 successful chapters at the 5^th Meeting of the National Executive  Council  with chairmen and secretaries of chapters which held in Ilorin on the 9^th of April,2016. A monitoring process was put in place, leading to a nationwide ANA/Yusuf Ali nationwide literary awareness campaign, with a special focus on tertiary institutions, held by the chapters given the grants.
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• ·        ANA was in the forefront of the fight for the release from prison, of one of its members, Nenghi Josef Ilagha , who was imprisoned for a purportedly libelous book he authored against a leading monarch in Bayelsa State. He was committed to prison in November, 2015 but freed on 26^th of April, 2016, after much pressure from the Association.
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• ·        The Association of Nigerian Authors participated in the review of the Nigerian Copyright Bill by making extensive submission on the draft sent to it by the Nigerian Copyright Commission and which was properly acknowledged by the Commission as contributing greatly to the improvement of the draft bill.
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• ·        ANA in the renewed vigour to identify with its own at specific occasions and cultivate existing friendship with partners was represented by the President at the Posthumous launching of a book of its former president Alh Abubakar Gimba in Minna on the 25^th of February,2016 and in the launching of a book by its patron ,Yusuf Ali, in Abuja on 17^th May,2016.
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• ·        ANA on May 13, 2016 held the Authors’ Groove at National International Book Fair in Lagos with one of its trustees, Prof Kole Omotoso , as Guest Speaker. Prior to that, ANA, represented by the President and the PRO South, have been playing prominent roles in the Council and the affairs of the Nigerian International Book Fair Trust.
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• ·        ANA on the 3^rd of June, 2016 signed an agreement with Box Office Studios Ltd in Abuja for the production of an audio visual documentary on the history, activities and achievement of the Association. The project was completed in December 2016 and a media preview of the film “ Dancing Mask: The ANA Story” was held at the Abuja International Film Village in February,2017. The project was executed with grants received from the Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA).The film was nominated for the Best Documentary Film category at the 14^th Abuja International Film Festival which recently concluded in October,2017.
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• ·        A strategic planning workshop was held between 7-10 July, 2016 at Kini Country Home, Akwanga, Nasarawa State , with 17 persons, drawn across the strata of the Association’s membership participating , which led to the production of a 5 year strategic plan document(2017-2012) that was presented to the public at the 35^th Anniversary International Convention of the Association which held in Abuja in October,2016.
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• ·        The President of ANA empanelled a team led by a former President of ANA and a member of the ANA National Advisory Council, Dr Wale Okediran, to resolve the 4 year old lingering leadership dispute in ANA Niger . The team visited the chapter on the 4^th of September, 2016 and the matter was successfully resolved with the enthronement of a caretaker committee to oversee the affairs of the chapter for a year.
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• ·        In furthering the internationalization objective of the Association’s activities and cooperation among writers’ bodies across Africa, the President of ANA attended the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) book festival which held at PAWA house, Accra –Ghana on the 21^st of September, 2016. A fall out of that visit was the attendance of ANA’s 35^th Anniversary Convention in Abuja in October, 2016 by a delegate from GAW.
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• ·        ANA held the first ever National Teen Authorship Conference at Logos International Schools, Awo-Ommama, near Owerri, Imo State from the 27-30 September, 2016. The conference attracted 20 schools in and around Owerri town and 15 teen mentors- trainees from 15 chapters of ANA across the country.
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• ·        ANA successfully held a well-attended and very memorable 35^th Anniversary Convention in Abuja from the 27-30 October, 2016 which was hosted by Senator Shehu Sani and attended by the First Lady of Imo State, Mrs Nnena Rochas Okorocha, among other dignitaries.
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• ·        For the first time in ANA history, apart from the convention held in Abuja in 1985, ANA members attending the 35^th Anniversary Convention were taken on a tour of the ANA land in Mpape, Abuja.
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• ·        Three distinguished members of the Association (Dr Wale Okediran, Prof Jerry Agada and Late Capt. Elechi Amadi) were inducted as fellows of the Association at the 35^th Anniversary Convention. Similar exercise was last carried out at the 2006 Convention in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
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• ·        ANA was fully represented at the weeklong celebration of the 70^th Birthday of its former president and member of its National Advisory Council, Prof Femi Osofisan, which held in the University of Ibadan in 
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2016.

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• ·        ANA participated actively at both national and states level in the burial ceremony of the late Capt Elechi Amadi which held in December,2016.
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• ·        ANA in its drive to partner and network with fellow arts and culture organizations in the country and beyond towards worthwhile literary causes, anchored a panel on literary prizes at the Lagos Book and Arts Festival(LABAF) held by Committee of Relevant Arts(CORA) in November,2016.
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• ·        The 2015-2017 ANA National Executive Council in encouraging democratic principles in ANA chapters across the country supported and monitored the holding of elections into States Chapters’ Executive Councils as at when due in chapters such as Akwa-Ibom, Benue, Abuja, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Rivers, Kwara, Kogi, Osun, Ekiti, Kano, Zamfara, Abia , Bayelsa,  Kebbi, Lagos, Enugu, Imo  and Ogun States at various times within the years under review.

 

2017

• ·        The National Executive Council of ANA in late 2016 and spilling over to February,2017, was able to network with Chevron Nigeria Plc, the sponsor of the long rested ANA/Chevron  Prose Prize on Writings on the Environment , for the redemption of the prize money of $2,000 each for the winning entries of year 2011 and 2014(The Poacher’s Daughter by Prof Jonah Agunwamba  and Oil Cemetery by Prof May Ifeoma Nwoye) respectively.
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• ·        Rising from its 2^nd Inaugural meeting of 18^th February,2017 at Abuja, ANA signed an MOU with STRADA Development Initiative establishing ANA Programme on Preventing and  Countering Violent Extremism(ANA-PCVE). The programme has 6 members of ANA drawn from the 6 Geo-Political Zones of the country as members. The programme manager is from STRADA.
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• ·        ANA for the year 2017 further streamlined its literary prizes by removing from its array of advertised prizes a few prizes whose endowments have since expired or which no longer received competitive entries.
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• ·        ANA National Executive Council in the year 2017 partnered with some of its chapters in the staging of special programmes and events such as the marking of the World Book Day by ANA Bauchi on 2^nd March 2017; inauguration of ANA Kano Executive Council and courtesy call to the Emir of Kano on March 30 ,2017 ; A Day with Wole Soyinka by Bayeslsa State Government with ANA Bayelsa on 16^th July,2017 and a courtesy call to the Governor of Edo State with ANA Edo on 14^th of July,2017,at which event books were donated to the Edo State Library Board.
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• ·        The 6^th National Executive Council Meeting with Chairmen and Secretaries of ANA Chapters held on the 4^th of May,2017 in Ilorin, Kwara State to review the annual Yusuf Ali literary awareness project and other developments in the Association with a view to aligning the Association’s future activities in line with the Strategic Plan document of the Association(2017-2022).
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• ·        ANA Donated 100 new titles of books, sourced from its 2016 and 2017 literary prizes entries, to the Justice Mustapha Akanbi Foundation Library in Ilorin in May 2017. The Foundation which was made an honorary member of the Association at the 35^th Anniversary Convention of ANA, has been hosting the ANA National Executive Council Meeting with Chairmen and Secretaries of Chapters since 2012. Earlier on in January,2017, ANA donated some books to the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Jos, towards refurbishing the University’s burnt Library under the Beauty from Ashes project of the University.
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• ·         In February 2017, ANA National Executive Council in conjunction with the ANA land Development Committee instituted a monthly monitoring scheme of the development on ANA Land in Mpape ,Abuja with specific developmental timelines agreed with the developer. This culminated in the Foundation Laying and Tree-planting Ceremony  held on the land on the 26 of May,2017 with a serving Senator, a member of the House of Representatives, members of the ANA land committee, members of  ANA National Advisory Council and other members in attendance. Work is on-going on the land.
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• ·        ANA in partnership with Poetry In Nigeria(PIN) held a night of Poetry Performance in the Indigenous languages at the Nzeh Mada Festival held in Akwanga on the 14^th of April,2017.This is in furtherance of the promise made for partnering with the Mada Community in bringing in innovation to the Festival events.
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• ·        Reproduction Rights Society of Nigeria(REPRONIG), a collection society for copyright owners of literary works paid a courtesy call to ANA on April 2017 in Abuja, led by Chairman of its board, Prof Olu Obafemi, to lay the foundation of a mutually beneficial partnership with ANA. ANA President later attended a workshop on copyright licensing in Tertiary Institutions held by the Society and The Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities in Abuja between 8-9 August,2017. 
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• ·        ANA National in partnership with ANA Lagos hosted the annual Authors’ Groove at the Nigerian International Book Fair Held in University of Lagos on the 12 of May,2017 with a special focus on the National Book Policy. ANA Documentary Film “Dancing Mask: The ANA Story” was screened at the event.
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• ·        ANA furthered its linkage activities with foreign literary Associations by cooperating with the Society of Nepali Writers in English, leading to the translation of the poetry of 8 Nigerian poets into Nepali language and published in a bilingual Nepali journal in July 2017. Already, works are on-going in producing an anthology of 25 Nigerian poets in a bilingual Nepali book.
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• ·        ANA facilitated the process leading to the honouring of one of its trustees, Labo Yari, by the Kaduna State Government with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening Ceremony of the maiden Kaduna State Books and Arts Festival(KABAFEST),which held in Kaduna on the 5^th of July,2017.
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• ·        ANA in its strategic identification with its members, friends and Associates in their times of joys and sorrows was present at the funeral of the son of its foremost benefactor, Haruna Mamman Jiya Vatsa, on  the 5^th Of July,2017 in Kaduna. The President later led a team of ANA members to pay a condolence visit to the family at their residence in Kaduna the next day. Similarly, ANA was at the funeral prayer for the father of its benefactor, Yusuf Ali, held in May 2017 in Ibadan and was on condolence visit to Dr Wale Okediran, Former ANA President, who lost his wife in December,2016. ANA had had cause to release official tributes and obsequies, attend Nights of Tributes on the passage of prominent writers and literary critics in the years under review such as Isidore Okpewho, Buchi Emecheta, Senator Muktari Abdulkarim, Osita Ike, Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo, Charry Ada Onwu, Onuorah Nzekwu, Abiola Irele and Adebayo Faleti.
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• ·        ANA activated its publishing outfit NWS Publishers with the appointment of a Managing Editor in the person of Mr Osarobu Igudia in 2016, leading to the processes that eventuality saw to the publication of three (3) new children’s literature titles under the Nigerian Writers Series imprint in August, 2017 that was earmarked to be used to power the A-Book-A-Child nationwide project of the Association.
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• ·        ANA in the year 2017 at various times was in secondary schools in Enugu, Abia, and Bayelsa States to inaugurate the Young Writers Mentoring Scheme in furtherance of nurturing literary creativity among teenagers and young persons.
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• ·        ANA in Partnership with Federal University, Ndufu –Alike Ikwo in Ebonyi State was scheduled to hold a one day symposium on The Expanding Frontiers in Nigeria’s Creative Writing in the 21^st Century on the 21^st of August,2017 which was disrupted by the nationwide ASUU The symposium  has been rescheduled to hold in November 2017 and the  maiden ANA national annual conference on the criticism of emergent Nigerian Literature  will  hold in 2018.
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• ·        In the year under review, the National Executive Council of ANA assisted in the formation of a new chapter in Bauchi State and  revitalized the chapter in Gombe State.
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• ·        ANA established a partnership in August 2017 with Bold Scholar Research Nigeria Ltd, an ICT solution company to revamp its website www.ana-nigeria.com; which was remodeled into a dynamic and highly interactive platform to become the best so far in the history of the Association.
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• ·        ANA donated 100 copies of its NWS 2 titles to the children of the IDP camp in Kuchingoro, Abuja on 7^th of September 2017 World Literacy Day Celebration.
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• ·        ANA got the consent of the Wife of the Governor of Imo State, Ugo Nnenna  Nkechi Rochas Okorocha in October,2017 to be the key facilitator and brand driver of its A-BOOK-A-CHILD Nationwide book distribution project.
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• ·        Members of the ANA National Executive Council attended the 3^rd Northern Nigeria Writers Summit which held in Katsina State between 3^rd-5^th October,2017 under the theme: “Literature and National Integration: The Role of Writers as Bridge Builders.”
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• ·        ANA in October, 2017 published the book Arrows or Gods? Critical Essays on the Leadership Question in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God from the proceedings from the celebrations of Arrow of God at 50 in 2014 by The Achebe Foundation and ANA.
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• ·        ANA successfully held a well-attended and very memorable 36^th International Annual Convention in Makurdi hosted by the Benue State Government from the 27-30 October, 2017.
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• ·        Three distinguished members of the Association (Prof. Sam Ukala,Prof Idris Amali and Prof Akachi Ezeigbo) were inducted as fellows of the Association at the 36^th International Annual Convention which held in Makurdi,Benue State in October,2017.
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• ·        ANA National Executive Council led by the President visited Federal University Ndufu-Alikwe Ikwo to meet the Vice Chancellor over the proposed partnership on criticism conference, attended Prof Akachi Ezeigbo’s book launch and to inaugurate the Young Writers Mentorship Scheme within the University from 8-9 November,2017.
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• ·        ANA organized a panel in partnership with CORA on the dearth of literary criticism in contemporary literary sphere at the Lagos Book and Arts Festival(LABAF) of the Committee of Relevant Arts(CORA) in November,2017.Three writers of the Nigerian Writers Series 2 books were also sponsored by ANA to participate in the Children’s Green festival component  anchored by Sola Alamutu.
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• ·        ANA attended the 2017 Gombe Day of Literature organized by Halimafactor Initiative and sponsored the prizes for the Junior Category Poetry Awards under its Young Writers Mentorship Scheme. The event held on the 23^rd of November,2017 at Gombe, Gombe State.
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• ·        ANA participated in the drafting of the MOU between The National Library of Nigeria and The National Library of Norway on the digitization of literary text written in the Nigerian indigenous languages in December, 
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2017. 

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• ·        ANA donated 100 volumes of contemporary literary texts to the Library of the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Ondo State in December,2017.
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• ·        ANA participated in the National Conference on Quality Education :Access and Rights Management in Nigeria organized by REPRONIG and Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities in Lagos on 27 November,2017.

 

2018

• Ø  ANA nominated two persons(Khalid Imam of ANA Kano & Claris Ujams of ANA Abuja) to participate in the  Global Book Alliance Regional Meeting organized by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa(ADEA) which held in Abidjan, Cote d ‘Ivoire from 22-24 January,2018.
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• Ø Rising from its 3rd Inaugural meeting of 20^th January,2018 at Abuja, ANA  established two committees: Constitutional Review Committee and Intellectual Property Protection and Advancement Committee.
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• Ø ANA donated 100 volumes of books to Terkule Aorabee for a reading and writing workshops in two LGAs in Taraba State.
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• Ø ANA ‘s documentary film “Dancing Mask” was screened in West African Films Festival held in February,2018 in Houston, Texas in the U.S.A.
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• Ø ANA President attended and presented a paper at the African Union 1^st Pan African Writers’ Conference which held in Accra,Ghana from the 7-9 March,2018.
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• Ø On the 1^st  of March 2018,ANA effectively moved its National Secretariat in line with constitutional provision and national executive council approval  to the completed red-brick building of the Association at the Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village in Mpape, Abuja. The former  National secretariat office at the National Theatre Complex in Iganmu, Lagos was handed over to ANA Lagos to manage and would continue to serve as the Lagos liaison office for the Association.
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• Ø Elections were held in the following ANA Chapters: Edo, Ebonyi, Benue, Niger, Abuja, Rivers, Plateau, Katsina  and Taraba
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• Ø ANA facilitated the participation of 10 indigenous language writers from Nigeria in the Association for the Development of Education in Africa’s “Énabling Writers: Bloom Software Training of Trainers Workshop” which held in Abuja from 17-20 April,2018.
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• Ø ANA attended the Prof Joe Ushie@60 Conference in Calabar , Cross-River State, Prof Sam Ukala @ 70 retirement celebration and launching of a festschrift in his honour in Abraka and the 25^th Anniversary ICALEL Conference at the University of Calabar, all in April,2018.
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• Ø ANA held its Capacity Building Workshop for National officers and selected 15 States Executive Council Members on “Innovations in Contemporary Literary Awareness Campaigns in Nigeria” which held in Ilorin, Kwara State on the 20^th April,2018.
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• Ø The 7^th Meeting of the National Executive Council Members with State Chapters’ Chairmen and Secretaries held in Ilorin Kwara, State on the 21^St  April,2018.
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• Ø ANA undertook a media supplement on the ANA/Yusuf Ali literary Awareness Campaign (2012-2018) in various newspapers and on-line blogs between March-April,2018.
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• Ø ANA held the “Authors’ Groove” at the Nigerian International Book Fair at University of Lagos under the theme “Literary Agency and the Promotion of the Authors’ Craft and Business,” on the 11^th of May,2018.
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• Ø ANA held its maiden International Conference/ Creative Workshop in partnership with Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu –Alike Ikwo with the theme “Expanding Frontiers: Nigeria’s Creative Writing in the 21^st Century,” from the 18-19 June,2018.
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• Ø ANA donated 200 volumes of books to the Library of  Alex Ekwueme Federal University ,Ndufu-Alike Ikwo in June,2018.
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• Ø ANA participated in the State Funeral given to the Late Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers’ Association(PAWA),Prof Atukwei Okai which held in Accra ,Ghana on the 14 of September,2018.
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• Ø ANA PCVE held a Stakeholders’ Summit on Assessing Nigeria Soft Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in partrnership with White Ink Consult and Gusau Institute on the 18^th of October,2018 in Abuja.
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• Ø ANA successfully held a well-attended and very memorable 37^th International Convention in Ikeja, Lagos hosted by the Lagos State Chapter of the Association from the 25-28 October, 2018 and attended by the Wife of the Governor of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi. 
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2019.

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• Ø Rising from its 4th Inaugural meeting of 26^th January,2019 at Abuja, ANA  appointed Sole Administrators to revive its ailing chapters in Anambra, Gombe, Kaduna, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Ondo, Bauchi and Cross River States.
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• Ø From late January –early February  2019, ANA President, on the invitation from Gambian Writers Association(GWA)was at Banjul, The Gambia or a bilateral relationship tour to conduct literary meetings and workshops for Gambian writers.
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• Ø In February, 2019, ANA published a collection of poems For Ikeogu,For Poetry: Tributes in the Memory of Ikeogu Oke, the winner of the 2017 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature for poetry who died on the 24^th November,2018.
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• Ø On 30^th March 2019, ANA was at the burial of the late poet Ikeogu Oke , winner of the NLNG Prize for Literature in 2017 at his hometown Akanu Ohafia in Abia State.
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• Ø On 30^th March 2019,ANA was represented at the burial of the father of a one –time chairman of ANA Akwa Ibom ,Prof Joe Ushie at Bendi at Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State.
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• Ø In March 2019, ANA received an endowment of its poetry prize with $1,000 from Senator Shehu Sani.
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• Ø On 13^th April 2019, the 8^th  Meeting of the National Executive Council Members with State Chapters’ Chairmen and Secretaries held in Ilorin Kwara, State with 12 chapters given sub-grant to carry out innovative literary outreach programmes under the ANA/Yusuf Ali Literary Awareness Project 2019.
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• Ø On 8^th of May 2019, ANA held the Authors’ Groove and Special Writers’ Day under the theme “Pushing the Writer’s Craft and Business in the Age of ICT” at the 18^th Nigerian International Book Fair which held in the  University of Lagos
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• Ø On 30^th May 2019, ANA donated 50 volumes of books to the Jigawa Library Project to aid the organisation’s book donation project to schools in Jigawa State.
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• Ø In June 2019 ANA participated in the Burial of Dr Gabriel Okara in Yenagoa and Boumondi in Bayelsa State.
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• Ø From 2-3 July,2019 ANA held its 2^nd Expanding Frontiers of Nigerian Literature International Conference/ Creative Workshop in partnership with Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu –Alike Ikwo in Ebonyi State with the theme “Nigeria’s Literary Criticism in an Expanding Space of Creative Writing and Digital Production in the 21^st Century. ”
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• Ø In August and in September 2019 ,ANA President was at the State Convention of ANA Ekiti State Chapter and at the grand finale of ANA Kogi State Chapter ANA/ Yusuf Ali Literary Awareness Campaign respectively in the spirit of supporting and identification of ANA Chapters across the country.
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• Ø At various times in the 3^rd quarter of 2019, ANA donated volumes of books to Federal Government Girls College Bakori Old Girls Association, Kate Tales Foundation and Ebedi International Writers Residency, Iseyin.
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• Ø ANA National Executive Council in 2019 monitored and supervised elections held in its chapters in Nasarawa, Kogi, Kebbi,Ekiti and Bayelsa in its resolve to ensure that democracy and good internal governance practices at chapters level .
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• Ø Fast-tracking development and construction activities on the ANA Land in Mpape, Abuja between 2017-2019 where presently the basic structures originally earmarked to be built on the land are in various stages of completion. This is a land that has remained without construction since 1985 when it was allocated to the Association by the then Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Late Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa of blessed memory.