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Tony O'Gallagher
Tony O’Gallagher has led a relatively quiet life in Newry, Northern Ireland. He was born in the early 1950s in London and attended a Christian Brothers’ grammar school. He is divorced and has three sons. His hobbies include playing bridge, reading and Sudoku, as well as divining water. He had held some high-ranking positions within the Northern Ireland Bridge Union and the Irish Bridge Union. This book, Clanwe Yashpack, is his first published work.
Colin Oakes
Colin Oakes was born in Norfolk on 16 May 1945 and has had a varied career covering catering as a trainee chef, leading on to management. He attended Norwich City College to gain qualifications in catering and sage bookkeeping. He also spent time as a building labourer and in a meat processing factory ending his working life as a self employed gardener/handyman.Colin lives with his partner Janet and together they have 2 daughters, 1 son and four grandchildren living in England and Tasmania.Having made up stories for his daughter, Colin ...
Osita Obi
Osita Obi was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1962 and has a BA (Hons) degree in English. He lives in Manchester, is married and has two children. Since graduating from university, Osita’s passion has been writing poetry and prose. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Okike, Revue Noire, Farafina Online, Sonnie Adegboyin’s Frontiers: Nigerian Short Stories and Helon Kabila and Kadija Sesay’s Dreams, Miracles and Jazz: New Adventures in African Writing.Osita’s own published works include The Girl Who Loved the ...
Evelyn Ogbebor Iguisi
Evelyn Ogbebor Iguisi was born in Benin City, Nigeria. While lecturing at the University of Benin, Nigeria, she met her husband who was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation at the University of Maastricht, Holland. She became a young mother while studying for a Ph.D. degree in Belgium at the University of Brussels. She later became the publisher of AFRIFAME magazine, published in English and French.Having relocated to the United Kingdom, she went to the University of Nottingham for a post graduate ...
Oyeniyi Osundina
He was educated in Nigeria at Ahmadu Bello University and University of Ibadan and USA at Pratt Institute Graduate School, New York and University of Pittsburg Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.Oyeniyi has years of experience in management, university teaching, government and research. He is an advocate of a strong relationship between purposeful development and culture. He is author of many journal articles and four books. In the course of his career he has attended several international conferences and seminars at which ...
Jacob Oyerinde
Jacob Ayinla Oyerinde was born in Ogbomoso, Nigeria, in 1948, into a Muslim family. He left for Ghana in 1956 with an aunt and became a Christian when he was baptised into the First Baptist church at Tamale in 1967. He returned to Nigeria in November 1969 where he completed his secondary school education, studied accountancy (1972–74), and worked with Heinemann Publishers until August 1976 when he left for Britain to take further studies. He qualified with the Chartered Association of Certified accountants in June 1984. In 1979, he experienced ...