Stories by Ibrahim Ramalan
The ANA Review Editor, Richard Ali, has said that qualitative and innovative writings from across the continent, including works from previous editions, from the 1980’s, would be incorporating into the 2016 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Review.
Speaking to Blueprint in Abuja recently, Ali promised that the 2016 edition of the review would be thoroughly exciting, adding that his penchant for quality would make the edition all-time best.
It could be recalled that only recently the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Ofonime Inyang, which was obtained on its website, re-appointed him as the 2016 Review Editor.
The statement further credited Ali as a great brain for having reenergized the Review both in terms of quality of contributions and aesthetics, and expanding its scope to include all of Africa.
On his re-appointment as the 2016 ANA Review Editor, especially having served as its editor for two previous reviews, Ali, who was a former Publicity Secretary (North) of the Association, told Blueprint that in as much as the appointment was made based on his modest work with the two previous editions, it has rekindled a fire in him to serve better.
He said:
“I want to believe the reelection could not be unconnected with the good job you did in the last review. Also, I think of the reappointment as a rekindling of a fire, you know how when you grow older you acquire new distractions. It takes things like this to remember that what you love you have always loved—creating and supervising platforms for literature.”
Ali is a Nigerian novelist and co-owner of Parresia Publishers, and member of Jalada, the Nairobi-based writer’s collective, and a board member of Uganda’s BN Poetry Foundation. His novel, City of Memories, is to be reissued by Parrésia Books.
