Arewa Book Club holds inaugural meeting this coming Saturday

 

AREWA BOOK CLUB HOLDS INAUGURAL MEETING THIS COMING SATURDAY

 

All is now set for Arewa Book Club to hold her inaugural meeting which will be featuring writers and readers across the nooks and crannies of Kano State.

A statement jointly signed by the Coordinator and Secretary of the Club, Mukhtar Musa Karami and Abdullahi Lawal Kangala said that the event will take place at the America Space Hall, Kano Library, Ahmadu Bello Way by 11a.m.

One of the issues to be discussed include the 10 points agenda of the club which are: Arewa Book Fair, Arewa Young Readers Club(s) (To be established in some selected secondary and primary schools), Free Reading Correspondence Course by e-mail, Arewa Book and Art Festival, Paperless/Mobile Book Club/5000 E-Books Per School Project, Groom a Writer and Adopt a Reader Project, Arewa Book Club Interview Series, Arewa Journal of Books, Arewa Prize for Hausa Literature and Arewa Book Review Series.

Membership drive and other matters related to promotion of reading culture in Kano State will be discussed.

The major objective of Arewa Book Club is to promote reading, writing and books written in Hausa and other northern Nigerian languages. It is also an avenue for book reading, book discussion and networking for northern readers.

Once in every month, Northern book lovers, voracious readers, writers, artists will now be converging to discuss old and latest books, read to an interesting audience, meet the guest writer and reader and also get their works published in the newsletter of the club.

Apart from the book clubs, the Read Across Nigeria (RAN), Paperless Book Club (strictly for reading electronic books), National Book Awareness Week - https://nabawknigeria.blogspot.com, African Book Week - https://africanbookweek.blogspot.com , Children’s Book Week - https://cbwnigeria.blogspot.com , National Week of Remembrance for Departed Writers (NAWRED) - https://nawredonline.blogspot.com, National Book Hub - https://nationalbookhub.blogspot.com are part of the strategies SYNW initiated to ginger up the reading culture in Nigeria.