In commemoration of his 50th birthday celebration, Yemi Adebisi, Life
Editor of Independent Newspapers Limited will be hosting the world at
the public presentation of his book, Adventures of Konko Biire.
The event, which kicks off by 10:00am on Saturday November 18, 2017,
under the chairmanship of Senator Shehu Sani, will be held at Prestige
Catering & Hotels, Plot 11A, Block C, Beside Fela Afrika Shrine,
Agidingbi, Ikeja Lagos. The special guest of honour is the wife of the
governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bola Ambode.
There will be poetry performance section by renowned
artists-cum-journalists, Akeem Lasisi and Evelyn Osagie even as world
class saxophonist, Saxmuel and gospel artiste, Fido Clef engage guests
with cool music.
Expected guests include Managing Director/Editor-in-chief of
Independent Newspapers, Ade Ogidan; president of the Nigeria Guild of
Editors, Mrs. Funke Egbemode; president, Nigeria Folklore Society, Dr.
Bukar Usman; national president, Association of Nigerian Authors,
Mallam Denja Abdullahi; chairman, Committee of Relevant Art, Jahman
Anikulapo; renowned global art collector, Omooba Yemisi Shyllon;
Abolore Sobayo; chief press secretary to Lagos State governor, Habib
Aruna and host of others.
Adventures of Konko Biire, is a fiction on an African child, who
waddles fruitlessly round the borders of life, bedeviled with
incessant rejection, hatred and failure traceable to his origin.
His challenges started with his Auntie, Adunni who never went school
and was naturally embittered, hearing the success story of Konko
Biire. Even when he tried to satisfy her, she made up her mind that
Konko Biire will never succeed. The story reveals foundational battles
in Africa that may be difficult to explain or prove except by divine
intervention.
With all the efforts he puts forth to gain admission to one of the
best universities in Nigeria, Konko Biire was mysteriously failing a
particular course which was known to be his best. Worried about the
cause of his failure that made him to spend extra year in the
university, Konko Biire became a wanderer.
His romance during the national youth service in the east with Nkiruka
was amazing. Though he promised to marry her, by the time Nkiruka
discovered she was pregnant by the time Konko Biire was rounding off
the service year, he renounced his earlier promises, claiming he would
be rejected by his parents if he marries from Igboland.
The travail of his wife, Asake who was inflicted with strange ailment
that almost took her life was another great lesson.
This life’s warrior faced with series of challenges that make his
existence miserable is forced to make life-changing choices. What will
he choose? With all his sturdiness, will he be able to overcome the
wicked witch? But how did it all begin? Where did it really start?
What happened to his preferred ambition?
The book reveals strange but true stories of African society as it
teaches moral, relationship, features of leadership, attitude and
basic essence of determination in life’s encounters.
Born on November 16, 1967 in Gbongan Osun State, Adebisi graduated
from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in 1991 with a Bachelor
degree in Microbiology. After working in various food and beverage
industries from 1992 to 2005 as Product Analyst and Quality Assurance
Manager, he discovered his writing skills and forayed into journalism
in 2006.
This vision made him to run a Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) programme at
Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) Ogba, Lagos in 2009. He emerged
as the joint winner of ANA/Osigwe Best Literary Journalist of the Year
in 2008.
Author of Power That Creates Wealth, Adebisi, is a pastor,
motivational speaker, counsellor, community leader, teacher and
prolific writer.
His sterling qualities as a scientist-cum-journalist made him an
outstanding leader of thought, home and abroad.
