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Conference of African writers
ICALEL is an acronym for the Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the English Language founded and chaired by African scholar and critic Ernest Emenyonu. At the centre of the conference are African writers and critics from all over the world. The first conference entitled “The Woman as a Writer in Africa” was held at the University of Calabar auditorium in May 1981 and Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo was keynote speaker. The themes of 1982, namely "Literature in African Languages" and "Writing Books for Children", featured Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Bessie Head as keynote speakers. The many notable African writers who have featured at the conference over the years include Cyprian Ekwensi, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Chinweizu, Dennis Brutus, Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Elechi Amadi, Ken Saro Wiwa, Chukwuemeka Ike, Nuruddin Farah, Syl Cheney-Coker, to mention a few.
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Old Calabarand translated into the Efik language. Although religious books were quite popular in this era, a small number of quasi-literatures equally...
at the University of Calabar, Emenyonu founded and chaired theCalabar annual InternationalConferenceonAfricanLiteratureandtheEnglishLanguage (ICALEL)...
Lagos, Abeokuta, Calabar, Onisha (Nigeria); Accra, Cape Coast (Ghana) and Fernando Pó (Equatorial Guinea). The Krio language of the Creole people influenced...
at the West African People's Institute, Calabar, followed by St. Augustine's Secondary School, Nkwerre. For his higher education he attended the University...
Europeans, early harbour towns such as Calabar, Badagry and Bonny emerged along the coast after 1480, which did business in the transatlantic slave trade, among...
Nigerian literature is written in English, partly because this language is understood by most Nigerians. Literature in the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo languages (the...
of English at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. From 1982 to 1983, Emecheta, together with her son Sylvester, ran the Ogwugwu Afor Publishing Company...
the History of Africaand recommend its dissemination, including in Africanlanguages, as well as the publication of its abridged and simplified versions...
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had focussed on a few strategically placed bases for its merchant fleet and navy, such as Lagos andCalabar, and was not interested in the communities...
is the only country situated entirely in Africa in which Spanish is an official language (Spanish is also spoken in theAfrican parts of Spain: the Canary...
conditions resulted in the subsequent expansion of the West African forest. West African hunter-gatherers occupied western Central Africa (e.g., Shum Laka)...
theAfrica Movie Academy Awards in 2008. She also narrated Jeta Amata's Anglo-Nigerian production The Amazing Grace, which was shot in Calabar. The film...
regions of the world, despite notable African developments in mathematics, metallurgy, architecture, and other fields. The Great Rift Valley of Africa provides...
and earned the West African School Certificate at the Ogidi Girls’ Secondary School, Ogidi in Anambra State. She attended the University of Calabar where...
Nigerian and Biafran military forces. On 17 October 1967 Nigerians invaded Calabar led by the "Black Scorpion", Benjamin Adekunle, while the Biafrans...
culture and languages in Africa, African-European studies, andthe study of democracy. The faculty of Law's research focus areas include the study of economic...
education: the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh, India, which delivered a Western-style education in theEnglishlanguage, or the Syrian Protestant...
by the United Presbyterian Church of North America, as an English-language university and preparatory school. University founder Charles A. Watson wanted...
relatives are the African lorisids, the pottos, false pottos, and angwantibos. They are less closely related to the remaining lorisoids (the various types...
Nobel prize-winner in literatureandthe first African laureate, Wole Soyinka, served as Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Ife from...
Wangel, Alaska. He assumed the name of Philip McKay. 1876 – In September, a rusty ocean steamer arrives at a port ontheCalabar River in what is now Nigeria...
directly on DVD. Since the early 2000s, several discussions andconferences have been held, based on how to revamp the Nigerian film industry and bring about...
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