Sola Osofisan
07-31-2009, 12:13 AM
ANA ABUJA’s 2009 INTERNATIONAL READING SESSION
The Abuja Chapter of Association of Nigerian Authors has taken a step further to establish itself as the model chapter of the writers’ association as it hold it’s first International Reading Session.
The evening of performance poetry will feature two international poets; Italian Raphael d’Abdon and Natalia Molebatsi, a South African and a host of other local and international writers.
Raphael d’Abdon holds an MA in Arts and is currently a Phd candidate in Linguistic and Literary Sciences through the University of Udine, where he researches on postcolonial studies, focussing on migrant writers in Italy and South African literature. He has published articles, essays, translations, interviews, short stories and poems in several volumes and international journals. He is the editor of I Nostri Semi – Peo Tsa Rona, a collection of post-apartheid urban poetry. His recent pulications include; Nostri Semi – Peo Tsa Rona. Poeti sudafricani del post-apartheid, Napoli, Mangrovie, 2007. (editor), “From Poetry to Floetry. Music’s Influence in the Spoken Word Art of Young South Africa”. In Muziki. Journal of Music Research in Africa . Volume 4 Number 2, 2007: 171 – 177 (with Natalia Molebatsi).
Natalia Molebatsi is a performing artist and writer who has performed at among others: the Grahamstown Arts Festival, the Urban Voices International Spoken Word Festival, the First Encounter between South African and Philippine Poets (hosted by the University of South Africa - UNISA), the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, the Udine Solidale and Sunsplash Music Festivals in Udine (Italy) the Anam Cara, The Goddess Awakened international conferences hosted by the University of Udine and the ISOLA international conference in Lecce (Italy), the International Poetry festivals of Florence and Genoa. She has also lectured at the Universities of Milan, Venice, and Rome.
She has worked with UNISA Press and the South African Literary Awards as a marketing/commissioning and media relations officer. She was honoured and humbled by standing in for Gcina Mhlophe as a storyteller of her works at the 10 th Anniversary Celebration of South Africa’s Democracy (hosted by UNISA), and performing poetry for ntate Es’kia Mphahlele at the preview of his book Suitcase. She has also performed poetry for SABC 1’s African spirituality programme, Imani: the divine spark and has performed at the Pan-African Parliament in celebration of Ghana’s 50 years of independence.
The reading will hold on Wednesday 5th of August 2009, by 4pm at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre Library in Abuja with the Ambassadors of Italy and South Africa among expected as Special Guests of Honour.
Jerry Adesewo
Publicity Secretary
Association of Nigerian Authors, Abuja Chapter
The Abuja Chapter of Association of Nigerian Authors has taken a step further to establish itself as the model chapter of the writers’ association as it hold it’s first International Reading Session.
The evening of performance poetry will feature two international poets; Italian Raphael d’Abdon and Natalia Molebatsi, a South African and a host of other local and international writers.
Raphael d’Abdon holds an MA in Arts and is currently a Phd candidate in Linguistic and Literary Sciences through the University of Udine, where he researches on postcolonial studies, focussing on migrant writers in Italy and South African literature. He has published articles, essays, translations, interviews, short stories and poems in several volumes and international journals. He is the editor of I Nostri Semi – Peo Tsa Rona, a collection of post-apartheid urban poetry. His recent pulications include; Nostri Semi – Peo Tsa Rona. Poeti sudafricani del post-apartheid, Napoli, Mangrovie, 2007. (editor), “From Poetry to Floetry. Music’s Influence in the Spoken Word Art of Young South Africa”. In Muziki. Journal of Music Research in Africa . Volume 4 Number 2, 2007: 171 – 177 (with Natalia Molebatsi).
Natalia Molebatsi is a performing artist and writer who has performed at among others: the Grahamstown Arts Festival, the Urban Voices International Spoken Word Festival, the First Encounter between South African and Philippine Poets (hosted by the University of South Africa - UNISA), the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, the Udine Solidale and Sunsplash Music Festivals in Udine (Italy) the Anam Cara, The Goddess Awakened international conferences hosted by the University of Udine and the ISOLA international conference in Lecce (Italy), the International Poetry festivals of Florence and Genoa. She has also lectured at the Universities of Milan, Venice, and Rome.
She has worked with UNISA Press and the South African Literary Awards as a marketing/commissioning and media relations officer. She was honoured and humbled by standing in for Gcina Mhlophe as a storyteller of her works at the 10 th Anniversary Celebration of South Africa’s Democracy (hosted by UNISA), and performing poetry for ntate Es’kia Mphahlele at the preview of his book Suitcase. She has also performed poetry for SABC 1’s African spirituality programme, Imani: the divine spark and has performed at the Pan-African Parliament in celebration of Ghana’s 50 years of independence.
The reading will hold on Wednesday 5th of August 2009, by 4pm at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre Library in Abuja with the Ambassadors of Italy and South Africa among expected as Special Guests of Honour.
Jerry Adesewo
Publicity Secretary
Association of Nigerian Authors, Abuja Chapter