Plans are afoot to rejoice the seventieth birthday of author, doctor and politician Dr. Wale Okediran with a publication in April 2025.
'Drugs and Literature With out Borders: Well being, Humanities and Social Justice within the Writings of Wale Okediran' examines the multidisciplinary view of Okediran's literary oeuvre.
An announcement from the editors, former Nationwide Chairman of the Affiliation of Nigerian Authors, Denja Abdullahi and Dr. Stephen Kekeghe of Delta State College, Abraka, invited events to publish insightful, well-researched and positioned chapters on the numerous faces of Okediran's artwork and observe. individuals.
“This name for chapters goals to spotlight the wealthy multidisciplinary contributions of Dr. Wale Okediran to look at literature, drugs, cultural research and political discourse. A vital thrust of this ebook is how his inventive creativeness, newspaper articles, biographies and travelogues over time have contributed to data productions within the fields of literature and drugs in Nigeria and Africa,” the assertion mentioned.
The editors introduced that the subthemes 'Social imaginative and prescient and the work of Wale Okediran', 'Ailments, medicalization and the writings of Wale Okediran', 'Medical ethics, the therapeutic relationship and the writings of Wale Okediran', 'The medical humanities, bibliotherapy, scriptotherapy and The Writings of Wale Okediran', 'Well being, Medical Consciousness and the Medical Columns of Wale Okediran', 'Politics and Social Justice within the Writings of Wale Okediran' and 'The Artwork of Wale Okediran's Quick Tales.'
The others are 'Youngsters within the Inventive Oeuvres of Wale Okediran', 'The Travelogues of Wale Okediran', 'Journey Writing as Literature', 'The Author as Biographer', 'Wale Okediran's In style Literature and the Studying Tradition', 'The Author in Politics : the instance of Wale Okediran', 'The author as literary administrator: the observe of Wale Okediran', 'The nexus between literature and movie and Wale Okediran's Place', and 'Writers' Residencies and the empowerment of literature'.
The editors requested that contributors “adhere to the type sheet of the ninth version of the MLA. All essays should be in MS Phrase, Instances New Roman, 12 fonts with 1.5 line spacing (besides indented quotes, which should be single line spaced). The dimensions of an essay varies from 5,000 to 7,000 phrases. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2024. Devoted and targeted private tribute essays on one of many recognized multi-dimensions of the person, Wale Okediran, can even be welcomed.
All submissions must be addressed to the editors on the following e mail tackle: [email protected].”
Dr. Okediran hails from Iseyin, Oyo State and is a author, physician, politician and literary administrator. He was a former Secretary Normal and Chairman of the Affiliation of Nigerian Authors. Dr. Okediran additionally served as chairman of the Nigeria Ebook Honest Belief and is at present secretary basic of the Accra, Ghana-based Pan African Writers' Affiliation. The writer of kids's and journey tales can also be the founding father of the Ebedi Worldwide Writers Residency in Iseyin, Oyo State.
Professor Toyin Falola from the College of Texas at Austin, USA, and Professor Taofiq Olaide Nasir from the Federal College, Oye-Ekiti, are on the mission's editorial advisory board.
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