SYNW set to showcase and
immortalize 150 departed Nigerian writers through NAWRED
The Society of Young
Nigerian Writers (SYNW) has set aside January 19-25, 2020 as a week to
immortalize, remember some popular and prominent departed Nigerian writers
through her annual project tagged “National Week for Remembrance of Departed
Writers (NAWRED)”. The National Week of Remembrance for Departed Writers is
aimed to remember and recall memories, profiles and works of famous and renown
dead Nigerian Writers.
This was contained in a
statement made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Tuesday by the President of
the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW), Wole Adedoyin.
National Week for Remembrance
of Departed Writers (NAWRED) is an avenue for bringing back to the memory of
the public the good works of our famous departed writers in the areas of
literature, politics, medicines, history, economics, religion etc. It is also a
way of intimating the upcoming ones to know and cherish the good works of our
famous departed writers.
According to Wole
Adedoyin who is also the immediate past National Publicity Secretary (South) of
the Association of Nigeria Authors (ANA) said “It is sad and disheartening that
secondary school students of nowadays don’t know and have not read great works
of dead writers like Olaudah Equiano, Abubakar Gimba, Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola,
T.M. Aluko, Abubakar Imam, Pita Nwanna, Afolabi Olabimtan, Dennis Osadebay,
Mamman Jiya Vatsa, Tai Solarin, Abubakar Gimba, Festus Iyayi, Buchi Emecheta, D.o.
Fagunwa, Cathering Acholonu, zulu Sofola, Cyprian Ekwensi, Elechi Amadi,
Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Tafawa Balew, Ify Agwu, Sesan Ajayi, Kolapo
Oyefeso, Akinwumi Isola, Adebayo Faleti,
Gabriel Okara, Folake Okediran to mention but few. They hardly know
their names or read about their biographies. This is the gap we want to fill by
bringing up this project. And we are currently compiling names of departed
authors to be used for the programme come Jan 19-20, 2020.”
“The National Week of
Remembrance for Departed Writers will be an online programme where works,
profiles and pictures of selected departed writers will be showcased. We have
opened three different blogs and different social media platforms for the
project” Adedoyin added.
The National Week of
Remembrance for Departed writers will be the latest project of the Society of
Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW) and in addition to its Chinua Achebe Literary
Festival, Annual Fagunwa Day programme, Read Across Nigeria (RAN), 2000 E-Books
Per School (Digital Library Project) and series of Reading/Writing
Correspondence Course.
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