Venezuelan, Nigerian works of literature take centre stage in Abuja

Some current issues in contemporary Venezuelan and Nigerian literature will be the highlights of the rescheduled  Guest Writer Session of the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF), which will be held on July 27 in Abuja.

Venezuelan ambassador to Nigeria, David Nieves Velásquez Caraballo, will represent the Venezuelan community. Caraballo, a career diplomat, was born in Cumarea-Sucre State in Venezuela, and had his tertiary education at Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez.

Mr Caraballo has had tours of duty in Asia, Middle East and Oceania, before resuming in Nigeria.

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Venezuela is currently producing extremely heterogeneous and often experimental texts, which, in some quarters, are seen as some kind of boom.

Ambassador Caraballo’s talk will showcase this aspect of Latin American literature.

Ngozi Alichi, who will take centre stage for Nigerian literature, was born in Oguta, Imo state. She holds a degree in English Language/ Literature, as well as a post-graduate diploma in Public Administration from Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu. She is a scholar of the Enterprise Development Centre at the PAN Atlantic University.

Alichi’s love for creative writing is finally finding expression through the publication of her debut novel, “The Journey.”

“The Journey” explores the challenges faced by Egobure Irondi, who, though born in a village, is determined to follow her dream of getting a good education.

The debutant author resides with her family in Abuja, and is a member of some professional bodies.