The event which has already begun to generate heated but healthy debate in literary circles is being organized by the Abuja Literary Society (ALS) in conjunction with Hybun Readers Club, to promote and encourage reading in the country.

In the words of Ken Ike Okere, the ALS Slam Master, ‘this is only one of our several ways of supporting a robust reading and literary culture in our society. We have very many other such activities, some of which we have recently unveiled and are running already, and some others that will be unveiled soon’. Speaking further, he said ‘ALS has been in the forefront of the promotion of a literary culture since 1999. Its reading sessions hold three times a month’.

Ahmed Maiwada is no stranger to the literary community. His first book, Saint of a Woman, also a collection of poems, released in 2004 by Hybun Publications International, raised the tempo of literary discourse at the time, as critics took the book aside, piece by piece, evaluating the literary value of every part of his craftsmanship, and in the end, came up with a positive verdict.