Association of Nigerian Authors

Association of Nigerian Authors

The Association of Nigerian Authors represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 with the novelist Chinua Achebe as President. The current President is Hon (Dr) Wale Okediran. The Association has branches in almost all the States in Nigeria.

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050403105217/www.ana-ng.org/home.htm ANA official site] at the Internet Archive - [http://www.ana-ng.org/home.htm original site] has disappeared. [http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/josana ANA Official Listserve] a forum for the discussion of Authorship in Nigeria


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