[New-Poetry] mentoring and project briefing -poets and
philanthropic invitation
gbemi tijani-mst
hammerword2000 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Aug 10 11:55:46 EDT 2006
10/08/06
Dear poets, friends, anonymous interested writers, doctors, donors, agencies, non-profit org etc
Subject:
MENTORING CALL AND PROJECT BRIEFING keywords: motivational communuication for literary development and capacity building of patriots,philantropy for literary rescue/development,interventional cosultation for empowerment
1A.*credible like-minds ,poets,writers,partners, volunteers,philanthropists,donors, doctors, contributors, peer literary or development editors, collaborators or agencies, authors, friends home or abroad are invited to co-found a cbo-
a community-based organization i.e a non profit,non-govermental organization
(Development friendly foundation*)
(Development friendly journal *)
(Development friendly literary communications*)
&
2A.A Consulting arm-Planet Gems
very soon in August 2006 Amen.
3A. *creative & consulting writing grant or mentoring urgent & solicited
by the convener-coordinator as a fulcrum of his literary miscellany development
& Identified innovative publishing of other writers works
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Nb Whether you already know MST-the convener- or not and you ‘re interested in any aspect of this project please feel free to ask more specific detail via email about this mentoring call or the Foundation (DFF) or the journal (DFJ) which is also different in content or focus from the DlitComm project which will promote, expose or popularize other selected writers/poets’ works.
This is a comparatively less privileged writer’s confessional. An Oliver Twist style of exposing his structural needs and resource link post to those better endowed to help in processing heaps of thoughts in proper readable format prior to the anonymous readers serving stage –that is, if it appeals to anyone at all.
*the power of the written word
a perspective on the culture of multimedia literacy
This is also locally and globally addressed to writers or poets or philanthropists, volunteers who share in development-friendly culture of improving well being and productivity of the peoples that we ecologically share destiny of humanity or of visiting their places as tourists, the interesting dis-ease of creativity generally and the business, compassion of treating this almost perennially if not eternally resourceful gift of writing generally. The written word as a stabilized but dynamic thought is potent, promising, and powerful beyond other weapons of communication that need other facilitators before they can be conveyed. Was it not in Mother Jones or Topic that John Updike, an American novelist and poet almost 30 years ago was alluding to the written word as the difference that makes the writer and the non–writer? Also as D.S.Hair, Western Ontario teacher and author of Browning’s Experiments With Genre said, “for Engel freedom lies in words and in the multiplicity
of the ways in which words order experience-which are often competing or overlapping or juxtaposed but they are always rich, vital and suggestive”.
I have personally found poetry of great minds very hilarious, soothing and philosophical –especially in D.O.Fagunwa’s mystic novel Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irumole translated by Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate (1986) as Forests of a Thousand Demons -far before I know of gospel healing power through the word.
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Dear boosters
here again I must confide to you that I really need an enlightened mentor to actualise my creative and project–idea miscellany productively-without quitting the health communication consultancy with the Nigerian Medical Association prematurely nor glossing over manuscript development.
With all modesty I will also like to write and publish copiously. . I’m NOT only referring to socially responsible writings of the Achebes, Soyinkas, Ngugis, Nwangis, Bellwether Prize , Walt Witman, critical and historical novels of James Clavel,Ariel Dorfman,biographies of Irving Stone,scifis of Ray Bradbury,Arthur C. Clarke,amusing writings of Mark Twain, the growing poetry volumes and the ubiquitous lectures of Niyi Osundare but also to the high-profit writing of Bob Bly- a U.S.consultant, freelance writer, seminar leader and author of many books. In fact, Isaac Asimov, Edwin Morgan and Danie Abse have inspired and culturally stretched my writing horizon enormously. Apart from being consistently creative scientists,poets, productively prolific, not too facile but globally readable they brought all faculties into their multigenre writings.
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.Mentoring Call-Grant Request-beyond the conveners needs
*Literary reference bureau project & Multidisciplinary development Journal announcement
The financial implications of processing and publishing –especially those already written before computer literacy and the internet era and still have to appeal or compete for reading beyond the writers’ attic – cost of necessary research and multimedia agenda that some will definitely warrant is expensive. This modest convener urgently needs a mobile I.T.equipment as a basic structural boost. A laptop –or even a richly configured software palmtop ,an external hard disk,a good flash disk in gigabites, an HP mini colour printer or a user-friendly different brand with proven less trouble shooting profile,a ipod for community folksongs research and storage ,a 3G Mobile Phone with 1.3 megtapixel Motion Eye camera,large ,bright 262k colourTFT SCREEN 64MB memory Stick PRO Duo , a Media Player WITH SONY MEGA Base not only to facilitate communication but also to back- up data transfer. Any other Quick-Share –powerful model –from Sony Ericson, NOKIA, MOTOROLA, LG,SAMSUNG with
these attributes will be appreciated. This could also be a back up to outdoor access to creative or consulting file.
Initially- an office- apart from the convener’s attic or dwelling is mandatory-before branch offices, corresponding poets and volunteers are considered internationally especially in the USA,UK,The Paris,Viena,Stockolm,Tokyo, East,West,North,South African cities rural and urban and of course the current hub of political activities in the West African sub-region- the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja & Lagos the perennial commercial nerve center of Nigeria.
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Writers –and poets too!
- are writing without computers
- especially here in developing economies
- TIJANI MST
I must confess I started using the Pc unspeakably late. Though of course the Wernicle’s and the Artistic writing centers are responsible for creative writing in humans I can rightly say with regret because of lack of adequate modern paraphernalia of processing raw poems/writings other than the natural brains -only few writers in the developing countries could chest beat they ‘re efficiently stabilizing their creative or commercial productions almost properly well enough and getting it across buddies or peers locally or globally to edit or comment or sell or be consulted with their output as New -Poetry ONLINE based in USA or BMJ in UK and numerous literary or professional journals as these counterparts writing in advanced I.T. settings. This also explains, albeit not an excuse -why many writers in developing countries haven’t designed a website.
Volumes of worthy manuscript will be needlessly lost to oblivion or murdered away to proxy typing still because of writers computing illiteracy or again ignorance or nonchalance or poverty of skills. The widely translated million copies of Achebe’sThings Fall Apart almost got lost in the manuscript stage in his undergraduate days in the 60s at the University Of Ibadan – after his crossing from medical school to the Arts Faculty of the same UI.
Although man is a political animal, the compassion and driven force behind this mentoring call and project briefing is purely literary camaraderie-so to speak-not at all political.
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At least starting personnel of 4 or 5 will be resourceful before further recruitment is warranted for the Foundation Agenda. Others will be operating on freelance–if needed.
BASICS NEEDED-but not exhaustive
A good fuel economy car is basic. A power support option –a generator is becoming indispensable for appliance-intensive data work-copiously creative works and archives.
Storage disks,good flash disks,external hard disks,laptops with internet facility,portable video camera and player,recorders and rich software library and anye-book that will enhance creative computing and related data management for the convener and his staff and use of freelance consultants that will visit or would like to be corresponding with the Foundation literary or development agenda.
I would really like you to consider and act positively on this structural or financial empowerment as support or total mentoring. Your mentoring intervention could be structural and financial or just one of these options.
You‘re always recurring in my heart to fill this void tacitly.
The foundation (dff) and the journal (dfj) project will cost about #10m ($76923.)1depending on the extent of collaborative projects we would be involving ourselves but definitely I would like us to MAKE IT A LIFE TIME IMPACT INITIATIVE- beyond mediocrity- targeting the productivity and well-being of the individual, community and corporate entity-supporting a fulfilling and productive lifespan should be our morale premise.
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WHY WE TRUST YOUR FORTITUDE TO PARTAKE IN THIS KIND OF PROJECT: Your integrity is beyond reproach. You appreciate creativity or inventivity per se- or selflessly and you’re aware that your creative productions or inventions alone, however precious still can’t alleviate the myriad of problems or lift barriers blocking or delaying true democracy in developing countries and egalitarian milieu in developed worlds-which are all desirable for uninhibited professional or creative fulfillment of citizens. A volunteer or a donor’s token forwarded voluntarily for promoting other creative endeavor or resource policies germane to the same can help to increase voice of the voiceless and change policies or inject compassion for the less privileged and the citizens we’re supposed to be serving or comforting. You’re humane or a humanitarian worker or agency.
You’re professionally known, globally viable, exportable, culturally alert and decolonized elite, internationally net worthy, intellectually catalytic, morally dependable, resourceful, and rarely indifferent to Good Citizenship Project germane to social development. You’re not typically rich but have links or other structural resources for literary or development project as abstracted below and above. You’re interested in supporting the convener ‘s dreams but you will like specific breakdown of priority needs or finances urgent-this is possible.
*IF WE ACCEPT OURSELVES WE WOULD consider others in perspective and give them another chance just as we have always called on the superior creator for mercies or wisdom or succour when things are beyond our understanding. We can shorten a- linguistic tendencies, boost international understanding, enrich the human artistic culture catalyse endogenous development patterns if we aren’t so cocooned to our apathy or complacency. We can contribute writings as well as support materially or financially or link up to those that are much more endowed.
In the 2004 Drumvoices revue, James G.Spady eloquently sites Larry Neal ‘s view
When we accept ourselves
‘-all of ourselves(all that’s the most divinely human about us)
we see in each other the best that we could all be
Not in some simplistic assertions,
But in the morality of our actions.
And what, pray, tell is morality?
Simply a system of social interaction that upholds the ultimate
Holiness of human life that perpetuates the survival of the nation body
of our people and then by extension of the entire planet.
Therefore as,
as the living words of Nation,
we must firmly
and honestly take our place in the timeless
,incessant,contorted,enlightening dialogue
the ultimate purpose of human existence.
Can we bring some manner of thought?
Can we understand the operational significance of the past?
Is the past the way or is it a trap?
Are we strong enough to challenge ourselves?
or will we enclose ourselves in a new prison of symbols
simply because we are,
like the West,
afraid to leave the Garden?’
As Paul B.Weis, author of The Science Of Biology said in his preface that there are many scientists who don’t believe in God and there are many like the earliest worker in laser beam discovery formerly of the California Institute of Tech that believe in prayers or at least divine power. I ‘m sure the same goes for poets! May Providence-God Almighty crown your years with all the goodness that will glorify His name-for and beyond your identifying with this project finance and relevance to fulfill peoples purpose and career dream –beyond mediocrity or selfish opulence. Amen
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dff literary project-
- is devoted to providing a pipe for fresh voices as well as perennially or specifically relevant works whose aesthetics are poetically affecting or have had potent healing effects on the tides of change through our disvirgined African heritage and the so-called socio-political liberation. Though of course we’re open to diverse intellectual style -submissions that characterizes productive psychic landscape, expanding beyond the front lawn and kitchen table of contemporary African consumerisms. Our emphasis will be on works informed by experimental but lucidly impact writings-any genre or style, sharp and short or copiously thick but sociologically productive, revealing poetic or professional fruitfulness, psychological distillation of alien or incongruous development perspectives, holistic models with healing wings on currently acquired maligning docility prevalent in developing democracies, chronic rote learning, rotten excellence and endorsement of
lavishness-all of which are responsible for snail speed patenting and creativity of the genius in African cerebrals till date.
- Whereas more Nobel laureates, Awojobis, Manuwas, Lambos, Oshuntokuns,Ezekwezlis, Adeboyes,Odukoyas,Haggins,Copelands,Adenirans(bold earliest Christian and African theologist that risked his life, opposed polluted ,extraneous teaching of the bible in the colonial Nigeria), Bacon, Nnadis, Ajekigbes, Utomis, Gates, Emeagwales, Fagunwas, world cup players, Winston Churchill,Shakespeare,Benshaw, Abraham Lincoln, Dubois, Katherine Durham ought to have manifested in our development history since the gaga crystallized the scene for us in 1954.We’d be enthused to consider transgenre writings or creative works that promote discovery, synergise the disciplines insofar as the output does not jettison clarity, co-efficient of language, africanity and other ecologically confessional elements that might seize him or her by the scruff of the neck downloading his thoughts.(#3m)
- Nb Please ignore all financial cost-they are frugal estimates based on fluctuating naira-dollar values. Just do something and ask for support guide or query before any contribution is made.
- Acknowledgement will be made instantly to individual email addresses and online -convener 10/08/06
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LITERARY MISCELLANY by TIJANI MST
Almost every environment offers a vast raw material for writing for a critical or creative writer. Contemporary world expediently widened by the global village- especially the Internet stretches this opportunity much more compulsively .The poet can decide to put it to positive advantage rather than focus on the negative and affective side. Nigeria is really blessed with enormous artistic and scientific talents but we need the right kind of policies and philanthropists that will support or mentor these talents beyond subsistence!
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GRANT PREVIEW ONLYA SEPARATE EMAIL FILE EXISTS FOR DETAILS SINCE 2004
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-#1.5m-inclusive of $3000.00 already annotated for authors association memberships, specific e-publishing and online subscriptions, in the May 2005 Writing Grant proposal –Snippets, flash fiction, poetry, the poetry project, novella, anthology, collect-select, review works, P A, Button Books, multimedia works on cds, voice books –special Audio books and anthologies etc NB.This multi-media literary development #1.5m & travel grant (#2m) to 12 cities in UK, USA, FRANCE, NORTHERN EUROPE, JAPAN, and ISRAEL
is inclusive of the convener’s basic miscellany #6m earlier stated .
All depending on distribution needs and global request by museums, national monuments, virtual libraries-Nigeria is just opening one at Abuja hopefully for the use of the public soon.
Except those otherwise committed to dynamic professional or intellectual growth-mostly academics, doctors, lawers, pastors and writers Nigerian corporate and civil workers have no clear cut Library-virtual or hard copy till date.
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Also there are an increasing growth of folk dancers, singers comparable to Hip Hop Nation,hip hop fans in South Africa,African Americans,Subsaharan guys, Tupac Shakur,Afrika Bambaataa,Schoolly D.Eveand numerous others across the globe apart from the new jazz lovers replicating the African beats peculiar to or originated by the late Fela Anikulapo ‘s afro profile.There are comedians,drama groups, home video companies who deserve ART/CULTURE GRANT or even bank loan for these viable artistic productions but this is really Herculean if not impossible till date Yet farmers of all seasons have always enjoyed micro-credit of some sort for poultry or cassava production.
Ebiks Theartre,The Alajotas,Igbaca-ARTIST CO-OPERATIVE,Oloye ‘s bilingual community tabloid in the vernacular/english (afon rere Yoruba) have been consistent enough in sustaining initiave to live on the arts for almost a decade I know this group that have featured at Educare Trust-a pro-active NGO committed to educational development and optimal planning /funding .
n.subtotal-for 8 projects-#35.5m-THIRTY-FIVE million five hundred thousand naira only
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I hope this note meets you in the best of spirit. I’m sure you will also be blessed for this mentoring by Providence- the Supernatural poet –since it all has to do with development friendly creativity and productive promotion of other entities, less privileged people-or identified Town Or Gown in need of advisory or resource through our Foundation or Journal or development friendly literary communications.
INVITATION TO DONATE or CO-FOUND A NON -PROFIT Nb.I WILL MOST APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD KINDLY LINK ME UP WITH DEVELOPMENT FRIENDLY CHARITIES or philanthropists or writers interested in mentoring poets with diverse publishing agenda based in a developing country-Nigeria where I.T.Literacy is still very low. In fact because of unstable electric power here writers must not only have alternative power like UPS but also plan external hard disk or flash discs to back up literary creations otherwise computing his thoughts will be so frustrating.
Good labtops or palm tops are still expensive. I really need facility support apart from financial grant to implement Foundation and the literary miscellany. AT LEAST #1m or # 5 m or more. Actually I need about #20m or $15873.17 as at June 2005 for a cluster of project including an NGO OUTFIT. To be honest–these are crude estimates. I don’t think less than #50m($39683.0 at 1:126) will be competitive as well as empowering because of the consulting arm that will be subsisting the foundation staff/activities when grants are still pending approval locally or from overseas agencies interested in our mission.
*It is most vital for credibility that your support and its definition i.e total support or investment input in the overall gamut of development friendly creativity and advisory network convened & coordinated by GBEMI TIJANI MST be documented, acknowledged instantly. It’s also important my would-be mentor or facilitator open up if structural equipment for folk culture project research or social work or unspeakable poverty memoirs expo justifying reduction interventions is convenient than monetary grant. All help is resourceful and will be acknowledged with poetic conscience! No draft or cheque or cash will be touched except this is clarified and mutually acceded to the terms and conditions preferred by the mentor & the mentored.* Representative or proxy signatory is also possible if a mentor is commiting substantially enough resources.
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*I‘m not even fixated to The Achebes and Soyinkas’ genre though they are nonetheless very inspiring and challenging from my boyhood days till date! Imagine their perennial crusading for good governance via conscientious representative democracy sustained by the lively coals of human rights activism are just enough to popularize or demonstrate the social role of a writer- who could also be a doctor ,a journalist or any conscientious professional outside the corridors of power or the theatre guy that are either talented, inspired or scrupulously groomed for this cerebral and civil love. Their Kenyan counterpart, Ngugi Wa Tiogo is a notable addition. New but matured creative writers like Niyi Osundare , Biodun Jeyifo,Kole Omotosho,Lekan Olagoke, Odia Ofeimu ,Ben Okri and many more sword-drawn poets (with the same fervour and cerebral weaponry targeted at the selfish or perennially malevolent,anti-democratic governance of some African polities are) emerging and
impacting through their literary craft.
Niyi Osundare, cultural speaker, poet,teacher of teachers in poetry is well known for refusing acceptance of any political portfolio back home in Nigeria because of the usual of attrition powers that be prior to and after appointment.
Candidly very few new generation writers can be compared with the like of Achebes ad Soyinkas’ unflinching social conscience and refusal to bootlick the status quo. Many younger writers or poets in Nigeria and indeed Africa are already as prolific in volumes of works globally publishable or eligible for notable laureates and prizes including the Caines’s and Bellwether ‘s –though might not be unqualified rare stuff for the Nobel Prize probably because they have not practically done enough to improve the near genocide or the bare social existence of their people via their craft or communal sensitization this ought to have engendered.
Though the compulsion that drives all writers may not be queried –including arts for arts sake-altruistic creative and professional writings are also worthy of support and search. There are many writers and poets who aren’t exposed at all
Sarah Anyawn ‘s diary poems in copious volumes in her undergraduate days at the university of Ibadan,should have found a place in her literary career now that she’s bagged her Ph.D and currently teaching classics in Cameroun. Many doctors and other professionals globally are involved in this unique but tedious expressive craft yet volumes of these works will even die with them nor just go into oblivion even if they are still alive.
I’m meditatively impelled more to recall the introspection I wrote years back as a high school teacher in Ogun state,Nigeria while leading an International Cultural club for students.
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I ‘m now thinking of opening an independent consulting office to actualize some of these ideas that are now relevant to optimal health, well-being and germane to improving, sensitizing productivity of the community, academics, health workers, agile, urban petty traders resource link to the talented or even organizations in need of very vital info or collaboration for a shared productive/development goal. Project priority and foundation focus meetings will be convened for review and editing of the mission and allied fruitful goals envisioned.
Or again: you could partner with me to initialize and actualize any of the ideas I might prioritize. Time is now! My heart is open to collaboration with like minds-insofar as the support is clearly defined.
Key word: creative, consulting and practical IIEC productions (to be copyrighted)
This financial request is not a lump budget for WHAT IS ON MY MIND but at least it’ll be resourceful to start something, recruit assistants, prioritize a proposal, equip frugally- but not impotently. We can then project profitability (for consulting services, assess impact for interventions) and lay bare allocation of gains from perennial pains.
We would be identifying needs and priorities and barriers inherent in attaining or accessing them,
Involved in planning, designing and producing educational, inspirational and informational materials that will help to modify behaviour or change attitude, embrace new values, conform to psycho-environmental decorum, alert to or become pro-active to basic civic or even sexual matter/responsibilities relating to public health, economics and human ecology.
I look forward to your immediate or interested kind actions –even this week or today by email first.
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I’m acting locally but looking globally for poets or partners or professionals or philanthropists with shared concern for our fundamental objective of strengthening efforts
For good democratic governance in Nigeria and Africa
or proffer solutions for Value Reconstruct
through a specifically designed initiative or collaboration capable of improving or reinforcing productivity. well-being in an identified corporate, community ,campus or individual entity. I hope this impact favourably with The Millennial Development Goals and if combined with a new value orientation for a selfless living and enlightened socio-political functioning and citizenry. This might minimize or discourage not totally avoid as such -the inherent peril of consumerism. This is already widening unspeakable social inequity and breeding rats in the race for inordinate cash stack.
Kindly call or reach me by email: hammerword2000 at yahoo.co.uk Thanks for your past helps and affability across the years. I really urgently need a more substantial financial help from you as abstracted above. Receipt and allied documentation will be given instantly or provided upfront or perfected as mutually preferred. As The Talmud said, loving –kindness is greater than laws and the charities of life are greater than all the ceremonies. Whereas judicious turning of our problems into benevolent enterprise is full of challenging service and therefore not at all lacking in prosperity - it should be appropriately planned and financed
I hope you will not be wearied of helping for effective living by improving well being and productivity.
I trust your fortitude and inherent compassion for
A C T I O N NOW!
JUSTIFICATION FOR LITERARY MISCELLANY GRANT
As American writers’ mentor, Bellwether said
Fiction has a unique capacity
to bring difficult issues to a
broad readership on a personal
level, creating empathy in a
reader’s heart for the
theoretical stranger. Its
capacity for invoking moral
and social responsibility is
enormous.
MST,07/07/2006 * updated01/08.06
Cordially as ever,
GBEMI TIJANI MST
Mobile 08035711291,08022360406
Email: hammerword2000 at yahoo.co.uk
Contact:M.D.Okay pharmacy, Suite 16 ,Agbowo Shopping Complex,opp. U.I. Main Gate,Agbowo, Ibadan.
p.s.referees :Barr.J.A Ige ,Prof O.Oladepo, Prof MKC Sridhar,Dr J.O.Olabisi,Prof I.F.Adewole Dr. Williams Bill Brieger(usa) Dr L.A.Tijani (usa) Dr.Damitha Ratnasinghe(uk),Rose Balogun( uk),Dr Sarah Akinyemi (nee Stevenson,UK)
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