Albert Afeso Akanbi – SYNW Young Writer of the Month (September 2020)

 

ALBERT AFESO AKANBI – SYNW YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2020)

 

Albert Afeso Akanbi was born in Nigeria on 31 March, 1982. A writer & filmmaker, he holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Delta State University, Abraka, a certificate in filmmaking from High 

Definition Film Academy, Abuja, Nigeria and participated in the 2017 RNTC Media institute in the Netherlands Persuasive Storytelling and Journalism programme. 

 

One of his short stories was among 50 selected from 38 writers representing 16 countries that appeared in the African Book Club’s maiden anthology The Bundles of Joy and Other Stories 

from Africa published in the United State of America in 2014. As an alumni of the Sangam House International Writers' residency in India, his creative piece on the subject of dance and the writing craft was among the over 44 works selected from over 40 writers cut across 3 continents that appeared in the Vol 3 of the Sangam House reader, Other Windows, published in India in early 2017. 

 

His short story That Sunday Afternoon won the maiden WordMaster Writers’ Challenge competition in May, 2015.

 

In 2018 he released two e-books, Urushi and Other Stories from Ososo and Christians and Muslims: A Collection of Articles to critical acclaim. 

 

In 2019, he released a picture book and a documentary film, both of them to critical acclaim, about Ososo, the scenic town of streams and rocks caught in-between the undulating Somorika 

hills of southern Nigeria. 

 

His op-ed articles appear frequently in a handful Nigerian media platforms. He is the author of OSOSO: Our Place, Our People & Our  Patrimony, The Edge of Patience, Cold Black Night and November 5. 

He is a father.