Andrew Bula

Secretary, Chinua Achebe Literary Prize Committee

Andrew Bula is on the staff of the Center for Foundation and Interdisciplinary Studies at Baze University, Abuja, where he teaches Literature and English Language. Besides being a lecturer, Bula is also a novelist, a poet, a poetry performer, a film actor, and an essayist, whose critical works have been published in Nigeria, London, Australia, India, Cambridge, and archived in the British Library, Stanford Libraries, ERIC Institute Education Sciences, and The Mark T. Coppenger Library of the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for the Church, Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Academia.edu has reported that his papers are read in 35 countries of the world and that he has 1, 015 mentions worldwide. As novelist and poet, Bula is the author of The School Chap: A Novel for Youngsters and Turns of Thoughts (Poems).He is also a short story writer of international repute. One of his short stories, “No Time”, which teems with the poignant theme of domestic violence against the woman, has been published by Novum, publishers based in London and Austria, and catalogued in the German National Library, Germany. Bula’s creative gifts and output have been variously honored and recognized, as follows: 

–Turns of Thoughts (Poems) has been recommended for reading in Nigerian Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education, SSS1, 2, and 3 by Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC).

–The School Chap (A Novel for Youngsters) has also been recommended for reading in JSS1 all over Nigeria by NERDC.

–The School Chap (A Novel for Youngsters) has been recommended as a complementary textbook and instructional materials for use in FCT Education Resource Centre from August 2022 – July 2025. 

–Turns of Thoughts (Poems) was shortlisted for the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) award for Poetry 2021.

–The School Chap has been shortlisted for the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) award for Children’s Literature 2022. 

–The School Chap is currently selling on the following websites:

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  • www.bookdepository.com (London)
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  • www.mightyape.com.au
  • www.athenaeum.nl (Athens, Greece)
  • www.abebooks.co.uk
  • www.aladin.co.kr (Korea)
  • morebooks.shop/store/gb/book/the-school-chap/isbn/978-620-3-57832-4.