In recognition of his contribution to the development of literature in Nigeria, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has concluded an arrangement to confer its fellowship on renowned author and literary icon, Dr. Bayo Adebowale.
Dr Adebowale, a former Deputy Rector at The Polytechnic Ibadan, will be joining the likes of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Elechi Amadi, and Femi Osofisan, who are current fellows of ANA.
The conferment of fellowship on Adebowale is scheduled to take place during the 42nd international convention of ANA at the Chinua Achebe International Conference Centre, Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village, Abuja, from November 1 to 4, 2023.
A correspondence signed by ANA’s General Secretary, Maik Ortsega, reads in parts, “In the course of ANA’s developmental process, there have been writers and persons who have constantly remained on the side of reason, offering advice and envisioning plans for which ANA will continue to move forward in the direction of its forebears’ vision.
Dr Bayo Adebowale is one of such distinguished persons whose value-centred consciousness has positively and quantitatively impacted ANA. The association is, therefore, pleased to induct him into the prestigious Council of ANA Fellows.
Generally speaking, the fellowship is conferred upon deserving individuals for their dedicated services to the association and proven contributions to the development of Nigerian literature in particular and Nigerian society in general.
Previous ANA Fellows include Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, J. P. Clark, Mabel Segun, Labo Yari, T. M. Aluko, Kole Omotoso, Femi Osofisan, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Olu Obafemi, Elechi Amadi, Zaynab Alkali, and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, among others.
Bayo Adebowale is the founder and executive director of the African Heritage Research Library, the first rural community-based African studies research library on the African continent. Located at Adeyipo Village, Ibadan, South West Nigeria.
The centre has a collection of over one hundred thousand volumes of Africa-focused publications, cutting across all disciplines as they relate to Africa and Africans on the continent, as well as Africans in the Diaspora of the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and the Caribbean Islands.
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