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Aniel Akak


ANIEL ANNI AKAK IV WAS BORN ON THE 7TH OF MAY, 1981 (HIS NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD MIRACULOUSLY REFLECTS THE YEAR 1982) AN EFIK, HE HAILS FROM ODUKPANI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IN CROSS RIVER STATE. HE STUDIED HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR AND IS A FERVENT CRITIC OF THE NIGERIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM. AS A WRITER HE HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION PLAYWRIGHTING COMPETITION, MILES MORLAND WRITING SCHOLARSHIP, LNG NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, PRINCETON HODDER FELLOWSHIP AMONG OTHERS. HE IS A NOVELIST, POET AND HAS PUBLISHED IN THE NIGERIAN GUARDIAN YOUTHSPEAK COLUMN. HIS POEMS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN AN ANTHOLOGY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND HE HAS SELF PUBLISHED A COLLECTION OF POEMS TITLED: “THE DEFINITION OF FOOLISHNESS”. HE IS A LITERARY EXPERIMENTER-PARTICULARLY SERIOUS FICTION-IN THE MOULD OF JHUMPA LAHIRI, JONATHAN LETHEM, JUNOT DIAZ AND CHABON. HIS HOBBIES ARE ECLECTIC AND ARE: LISTENING TO CLASSICAL MUSIC, RHYTHM AND BLUES, ROCK AND ROLL, REGGAE, CALYPSO, SKA AND OCCULT MUSIC, WATCHING EPIC FILMS AND SITUATION COMEDIES, FOOTBALL, DOCUMENTARIES, EXERCISING IN THE GYM AND MOST IMPORTANTLY READING AND WRITING FICTION AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION. HE IS SINGLE BUT NOT READY TO MINGLE AND RESIDES ALTERNATELY IN ACCRA AND CALABAR.