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INTERVIEW: My life as a writer and what Pius Adesanmi told me before his death


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Bamidele Ademola-Olateju is a writer, farmer and activist. A member of the Premium Times Editorial Board, she writes a weekly column for this newspaper in addition to her regular engagements with friends and followers on social media.
Mrs Ademola-Olateju was a close friend and confidant of the popular writer and Carleton University professor, Pius Adesanmi, who died in a plane crash in late 2019.
She clocked 55 on May 3. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Mrs Ademola-Olateju reflects on her friendship with Mr Adesanmi, her writing, business and political life as well as her plans for the future.
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PT: How time flies! It was like yesterday when we all gathered in Lagos to usher you to the golden age. Now you are 55. How does it feel? ....

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African authors – writing for the world - New African Magazine


African authors – writing for the world
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Gail Collins outlines the growth of African literature, from the 18th century to modern times.
In 1761, a small child, Phillis Wheatley (as renamed by the family she worked for) was captured and taken from her home in West Africa to Boston in the US. Fortunately, she landed in the arms of a benevolent family who taught her to read and write but they would have been totally unaware that this would lead her to become the first African to have work published in the UK and US with her collection of poetry –
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral – in 1773. ....

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Where is Murtala Nyako? - The News Chronicle


Where is Murtala Nyako?
On 16th April 2014, the Northern Governors Forum met in Kaduna to discuss the security challenge facing the region at the time. Three days later, Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), then Governor of Adamawa State, released a memo he presented at the session titled ‘On-Going Full-Fledged Genocide in Northern Nigeria’. In the poorly written, long-winding memo, Nyako accused the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan of using “mass murderers/cut-throats imbedded in our legitimate and traditional Defence and Security organizations” to carry out ‘genocide’ against the North.
It was shocking that a former Chief of Naval Staff, who had also served as governor of Niger State during the military era, would mix politics with security. But it was obvious at the time that Nyako’s ‘memo’ was a political hack job meant to portray President Jonathan in a bad light less than ten months to the general election. Sadly, rather than calling him to ord ....

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