AWF Kick-Starts 2012 session with Uche Ezechukwu and Steve Okecha
Uche Ezechukwu is an Anambra State-born multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary journalist, writer and public affairs consultant, with nearly 30 years of cognitive experience in the different areas of media and public affairs practice. He has also been an image manager of ‘difficult’ public figures and their platforms ranging from General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, General Sani Abacha (as […]
Uche Ezechukwu is an Anambra State-born multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary journalist, writer and public affairs consultant, with nearly 30 years of cognitive experience in the different areas of media and public affairs practice.
He has also been an image manager of ‘difficult’ public figures and their platforms ranging from General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, General Sani Abacha (as Nigeria’s 10th head of state), General Muhammadu Buhari(as the presidential flag-bearer of the ANPP in 2003) and Dr. Andy Uba (as PDP gubernatorial flag-bearer in Anambra State in 2007)
He has also authored four books of biographical, historical and sociological genres, including: Abacha: The Myth, the Man (1977); In God’s Hands (1999) (the amazing story of the Biafran Air Force); Land of the Risen Sun; and Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served. Another book, A Bridge Across Time (a depiction of the Sokoto Caliphate) is in the press and will be published by June this year.
His latest book, Ojukwu, the ‘Rebel’ I Served (2012), is an intimate account of a writer and journalist who worked very closely and intimately for two years under the ex-Biafran leader as a media aide and speech writer at a time Ojukwu’s image needed rehabilitation most. The 222-page book which the author started and concluded in 17 days after the announcement of the death of his subject on November 26, 2011, contains accounts and insights into areas of the man’s life that had never been touched on before, or which had been distorted. He gave such rare insights into the man’s persona that are not readily available to those who had looked at and seen him from the distance, as a warlord without a heart or soul.
Steve Agwo Okecha, is a distinguished Professor of Chemistry and currently a consultant with the Federal Ministry of Education. He will be reading from his latest book, “The Nigerian University: An Ivory Tower With Neither Ivory Nor Tower
The Guest Writer Session started in June 2008 and has been a consistent feature of the nation’s literary scene. The February 25 session will include the usual side attractions of poetry performance, mini art exhibition, and a raffle-draw as well as live music. The Abuja Writer’s Forum meets three Sundays each month and hosts a reading on every last Saturday at the International Institute of Journalism and Pen and Pages respectively.