Fear is the greatest threat to art – Sidi
Umar Abubakar Sidi is author of ‘The Poet of Dust’. A helicopter pilot with the Nigerian Navy, here he talks about his poetry collection, the art of writing and more. Excerpts:Recently, a dear friend of mine attributed the ‘dust’ in the title to the dusty terrain of Sokoto, my ancestral home. That may be true, but I was not very conscious of that when I wrote the book. You will notice that ‘The Poet of Dust’ is one of the many titles of the meta-character Al-Arshad.
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