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Zazzau Books and Arts Festival
Date:
April 26, 2025
From Date:
April 26, 2025
To Date:
April 27, 2025
The festival is organized by Bookish Alchemy to celebrate the literary, cultural, and creative lineage of Zaria, northern Nigeria and beyond.

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Author:
David G. Maillu
Publisher:
Mvua Press
After 4:30 rocketed the now renown author, David G. Maillu, to become the most widely read, controversial and humorous writer in East Africa. Using poetry, the author writes a provocative and bluntly-critical book that is also highly entertaining. The epic is set in the post-independence era of the early 1970s and craftily unravels the problems of housewives, office secretaries, sex workers, and o