The president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Mr. Camillus Chima Ukah, has described the Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village as the biggest writers’ resort in Africa.
He made the statement recently at the August edition of the Mbari Series, the monthly writers’ parley, at the Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village, Mpape, Abuja.
He stated that the present level of development of the Writers’ Village was achieved by his administration’s policy of development by progressive addition.
He said: “We have been able to realise the magnificent Chinua Achebe International Conference Centre, a functional secretariat with offices for principal officers, a hotel, a physical library with shelves that can take thousands of books, an E-library with over 200 million books, and the Institute for Creative Writing and Film Studies, which is ready to take off any time soon.”
Ukah explained that the 50-room capacity hotel is now functional and that the hotel area has been redesigned to accommodate more facilities in addition to apartments that are still coming up.
“We have made tremendous progress, in fact, magical progress. And this has consolidated the leadership of Nigerian literature in the continent and beyond,” he said.