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Flash Back: Habu Dawaki launched book

Reverend Habu Dawaki, who is best known as the motivational columnist in the Weekly Trust , has published three books containing chapters drawn from his column and a weekly talk he has been giving on the FRCN Kaduna 96.1 FM radio. The books are, There Is A Place Called Tomorrow , Shake hands With Destiny , and The Final Whistle Has Not Blown . The books were launched on September, 16, 2006. The multi-talented Kaduna based author is also a teacher, business man, and man of God. He was recently a former commissioner in the administration of former Gombe state governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dan kwambo.

25 Years After Abubakar Imam: Where are the Inheritors?

Dr Ibrahim Malumfashi, July 1, 2006 This year, specifically this month of June marks the 25th year of the demise of Abubakar Imam, the foremost Northern writer and journalist. On the occasion of this anniversary, I wish to use this medium to highlight the comatose nature of Hausa written literature since that time and have a look at the inheritors of Imam and his age that permeates the Northern literary landscape. In doing that we hope to be able to lay things bare as far as the development of the literature is concerned. I think there is the need for this kind of soul searching from time to time so that we can come to terms with the reality of our times and construct a future without hiccups for our nascent literature. I will begin this discourse by repeating the well-known axiom I have been articulating for the last 15 years. I have this belief that in the North and among any age group of writers that once existed or still exist, there was none like Imam, none like him today a...

Crowns, Thorns and Markarfi

By Mahmud Jega September 4, 2004 H e himself threw on birthday bash, but on Sunday last week, when Kaduna state Governor Alhaji Ahmed Mohamed Makarfi clocked 48, there were many messages of congratulations on the radio, on television and newspapers. Since he himself did not speak publicly on it, it was left to those who saw him on that day to report his one well-spent. It wasn’t easy in the beginning, he said, but with Allah’s bountiful mercies and with his own struggle and hard work, he had accomplished more in the service of the people in 48 years than many people are opportune to do in 100. Talking about Allah’s mercies, exactly a week to the birthday, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi and the administration he heads had been thrown into turmoil following the death of Alhaji Umaru Balarabe Kubau. He had been the Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport throughout the Makarfi era, and more than that, he was the governor’s technocratic right-hand man and a pillar of the administratio...

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