My phone beeped to announce a new email. It was from Zainab Dzukogi, the director of the Muktar Aliyu Art Residency, Minna. I hesitated. It has been around a week since I sent my application. What if the email was informing me that I hadn’t been selected? But as a writer, I was already used…
October 24, 2024, will forever be indelible in my memory. As I gazed at the email notification, my heart beat more than usual. I exclaimed in surprise, “Ha!” The reality of embarking on a journey to Minna, Niger State, for 21 days without my family by my side suddenly dawned on me. Every journey I’d…
The Muktar Aliyu Art Residency (MAAR), Minna, Niger State, Nigeria, is pleased to announce the successful applicants for the second edition beginning from 1st November, 2024. They are; Victoria Ojo Ilemobayo from Lagos State and Judith L. Maikaho from Gombe State. Ojo Victoria Ilemobayo is a Nigerian literary enthusiast whose works have appeared in Christian…
Writers, Painters, and Photographers are hereby invited to apply for the 2nd admission of the Muktar Aliyu Art Residency, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria sponsored by Mr. Jonathan Kolo. He sponsors two programmes under the Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation (HCAF): He does all these under his TIMEOUT4AFRICA FOUNDATION for Basketball and Education. HCAF is immeasurably grateful…
Every beginning surely has an end, and with every end, another journey begins. I remember receiving the acceptance mail on a Thursday evening when I just alighted from a bus that drove me from Lagos down to Ibadan—it felt surreal, like a dream displaying right on my phone. My Hannah later got her Samuel—not in…
