APRIL EDITION OF THE OSOGBO BOOK CLUB MONTHLY READING HOLDS TOMORROW, SATURDAY 17 APRIL, 2021

Osogbo Book Club (IBC) has expressed readiness to host two Osogbo based writers, Lukman Alawode and Akobi Joshua Bamigbade this coming Saturday, 17 April, 2021, in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State.

A statement by Godwin Grace, the Coordinator of the club, said the event would take place at the Writers’ Global Movement Secretariat, Ona-babaona, Okebaalẹ, Tara Area Osogbo, Opposite Essence International School by 12PM prompt.

In 2014, 2016 and 2017, Osogbo Book Club in conjunction with the Osun State branch of the National Library of Nigeria under the headship of Mr. Bashir Akanni Salawu and Mrs Felicia Abosede Oyeleke held series of book reading programmes which were sponsored by the Board aimed at reviving and enhancing book reading culture in the state. The programmes also featured arts exhibitions and reading of creative books.

ABOUT OUR GUEST WRITERS/READERS

Luqman Alawode is the Director of Studies, Initiative for Sound Education, Relationship & Health, Osun state coordinator of SYNW, and a Fellow of World Institute for Peace. He is the founder of Humanity First Initiative and Initiator of War Against Fake News, a global anthology that was targeted at eradication of spread of fake news across the globe. He published his first magazine in 2020 which was tagged: Colours of Humanity, The Requisite to Redeem the Heritage of a Displaced World.

Luqman is a Poet, Short story writer, humanitarian and an anthologist. He is one of the over two hundred (200) global writers that co-authored a book titled Complexion Based Discrimination, a book that sought to eradicate discrimination against skin colour and ethnicity.

Akobi Joshua Bamigbade is a published author and book promoter. Akobi Joshua was born in the sixties in the city of Ile Ife. He attended about three different primary schools before settling down with one finally. This is a result of following his father who was a teacher during his transfers from one school to another. He attended the prestigious and only boys secondary school in Ile Ife, St John's Grammar school founded by a Catholic Reverend, Father Clouthier. He furthered his education by studying English and History at College of Education in Ilesa from 1982 to I985. He attended both University of Ilorin and the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife for his degree in Language Arts and English Language respectively, the former of which he abandoned after three years before settling for English Language at Obafemi Awolowo University.

He has worked as a teacher of English Language all through his career even when appointed as Principal until his retirement from government service in 2020 after the mandatory 35 years in service.

As a teacher in the 80s, he founded a magazine then called the 'voice ' to encourage creative writing among his students then.

He is a man in love with literary activities and has been involved in different inter-school debates programmes and essay competitions. He has equally contributed short stories and poems to the WGM Magazine,an online creative writing magazine.

He is happily married with children.