ORIS AIGBOKHAVBOLO TEACHES WRITING

Nigerian film critic and writer Oris Aigbokhaevbolo on Saturday, August 24 and Sunday, August 25 held a workshop themed "Write With Style" at Ouida, along Oba Dosunmu Street (opposite Protea Hotel), off Isaac John Street, GRA Ikeja, Lagos.

Oris Aigbokhaevbolo, who holds a degree in pharmacy from the University of Benin, was inspired by The Paris review interview collection and great writers like James Baldwin, Hiro Shima and a few others. He's been writing for about five years, he's known for his crackerjack writing skill and became the first winner of the All Africa Music Award prize in Music Journalism, having written about various Nigerian musicians the likes of Wizkid, MI and their music. Aigbokhaevbolo is also a film critic at THIS IS AFRICA and editor for Music In Africa.

The workshop, which was induced to improve the writing skill of many Nigerian writers, allows for the participants to understand the basic tool in writing. That, of course, includes how to put a particular sentence together with a view of becoming a better writer.

Furthermore, he added that the Write With Style Workshop is of importance as it will help to cultivate the culture of excellence not as a writer only but as a people as well and also produce good writers, emplace what it is to be literate and literary literate.

Among the topics covered at the workshop are: How To Write a Good Sentence, What Is Style?, What Is Euphony?, How To Use the Semicolon and Other Punctuation Marks, The basic Tools Needed to Write Reviews, Interviews, Reportage, Fiction and Creative Non-fiction and Who Pays Writers?

The two-day workshop, which pivoted on the premise that “Words run the world”, basically explored ways of making one’s own selection of words and collection of sentences standout. The idea is to make participants better writers through equipping them with the tools they need to produce distinctive writing.