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Denja Adbullahi Poet Nigeria
Denja Abdullahi is an award winning Nigerian poet, literary essayist and culture technocrat. His published poetry works include A Thousand Years of Thirst (2011), Abuja Nunyi (2008), The Talking Drum (2008), Mairogo: A buffoon’s poetic journey around Northern Nigeria (2001), which received honourable mention for the prestigious ANA/CADBURY 2001 Poetry Prize and Themes Fall Apart But the Centre Holds (2009), a critical work which he co-edited with Joe Ushie to mark the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, celebrated worldwide in the year 2008. Denja Abdullahi has other creative and critical pieces published in journals, anthologies, books, newspapers and online. His latest published work is a collection of three plays entitled Death and the King’s Grey Hair and Other Plays (2014). He was the National General Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) from 2005 to 2009 and has been the Vice President of the same Association since 2011. Denja Abdullahi presently works in the National Council for Arts and Culture, Abuja- Nigeria as a Director, Performing Arts.
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