Another trio for Ebedi Residency

Adinoyi, a Kaduna based writer writes poetry, short stories, plays and film scripts. He is a former Vice Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Kaduna State Chapter and the past Chairman of the Kaduna Writers League. His works have featured in several newspapers and magazines in Nigeria and abroad and has participated in many […]

Adinoyi, a Kaduna based writer writes poetry, short stories, plays and film scripts. He is a former Vice Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Kaduna State Chapter and the past Chairman of the Kaduna Writers League. His works have featured in several newspapers and magazines in Nigeria and abroad and has participated in many BBC and Commonwealth playwriting competitions. He has also been published in an anthology of Pidgin English, IF YU HIE SE A DE PRIZIN while his pidgin play: A NO BETA PAS MAI NEBO, was recently staged in Abuja. He is a graduate of Mass Communications and a Consultant in Human Resource Development and Educational Services. Stephen Adinoyi will spend his time in Ebedi to complete a collection of short stories entitled; TALES OF CHRISLAM. The work focuses on the tragedies, gains, loses, hypocrisies, perversions, ignorance and extremisms of the two major religions in Nigeria. It also touches on issues relating to these religions in other parts of the world.
The second writer, Tukura John Daniel is an Abuja based Writer and Film Maker. He has attended many Workshops on Screenwriting such as the Ford Foundation/Afrinolly Writers Workshop and the Bold & Beautiful Academy organized by the New York Film Academy. Between 2013 and 2014, Tukura undertook an online Screenwriting Course organized by the New York Film Academy. His creative works include the screenplay; EVERY WOMAN; a short film that is currently in preproduction in Los Angeles, USA. He also wrote the screenplays AVNIGO, for Ford Foundation’s CINEMA4CHANGE and MRS. & MRS. JOHNSON for MNET. He will be utilizing the solitude of the Ebedi Residency to complete a new screenplay and a novel.
The third writer is Zaasi Dawn Meneh from Rivers State. A 2007 Accountancy graduate from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Dawn has worked extensively in the area of research into the Folktales of the South-South and North Central States of Nigeria. He intends to use his 6-weeks stay at the Ebedi Residency to work on his debut novel-The Lion’s Dream- and also to carry out further research on other manuscripts he is currently working on.
The Ebedi International Writers Residency, a private initiative for writers to complete their ongoing works at no expense to the writers is in its fourth year of existence. It has played host to over 50 writers from Nigeria and other African countries since its inception.