Kogi Book and Arts Festival (KOBAFEST), a literary festival organized by the Awareness Literary Society, a non-profit literary organization.
With the inaugural theme being The Griot: Tales from the Patti Hill, the goal of KOBAFEST is to kindle the spirit of national and artistic
This is why the Awareness Literary Society aims to make a difference with KOBAFEST through the showcasing and highlighting of the creative genius of Kogi people and other Nigerians in relation to their art, literature, history, and socio-economic politics.
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Kobina Sekyi, the grandson of Chief Kofi Sekyi, was born in 1892 at Cape Coast (locally known as Oguaa). As a highly educated member of his society, he was brought up to believe that European culture was superior to African culture.
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She rose to be a dean in the faculty of arts at Nasarawa State University in Keffi, where she taught creative writing.
She is regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria.
She went on to be a lecturer in English at two universities in Nigeria.
She married the former vice-chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Mohammed Nur Alkali, and they had six children.
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Alkali was born in Tura-Wazila in Borno State in 1950. She graduated from Bayero University Kano with a BA in 1973. She obtained a doctorate in African Studies in the same university and became the principal of Shekara Girls' Boarding School