By Idris Katib
The Crescent Literari Village, a students’ association cutting across all departments of Crescent University, Abeokuta with a vision to encouraging writing, creativity and connectivity has celebrated its maiden edition of Crescent Literari Festival.
According to the President, Miss Mujeebat Idris, the festival tagged Crescent Literari Festival 1.0 was celebrated under the theme “Creativity: The Voice of The Soul”, witnessed rendition of poetry, songs and promotion of indigenous cultures among students and guests present.
In her welcome address, Idris stressed that Crescent Literari Village was founded to build bridges across platforms of students at Crescent University, Abeokuta and beyond.
She applauded participants for coming to display their talents and creativity at the festival.
In his remarks, Scholar
Akanji Olaniyi, who was the brainchild of the Association identified that “reality of everything starts from thinking of themselves as soul-searchers.” He stated that the beginning of aeronautics was the Wright Brothers thinking of flying like birds and stressed that the very foundation of every great product stemmed from creativity.
Also, one of the guest lecturers, Scholar AbdulWasiu Sakariyau, promoter of TIWA-NTIWA Yoruba Language YouTube Channel, appreciated the executives of Association for organizing the festival and underlined that whenever a language dies, the culture also dies.
Sakariyau charged members and participants to get connected with their heritage and be proud of their origin always.
Reacting to the lecture, the Vice President, Muhsin Ashimi Adedamola relayed his experience how he used to undermine his name until a point in his life when he realized the beauty of it.
The second guest speaker and Vice Chairman of Ogun State Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Mr Waheed Ogunjobi encouraged the Literari Villagers to always put their thoughts in writing, using a quote that ” he who thinks on paper thinks better”. He said this would help them retain their original ideas and creativity for future use.
Ogunjobi said whatever form of creativity the students had must be committed to writing and noted that “reading maketh a man, writing maketh a complete man”.
Students who performed their poems live to the applause of the audience are Qesma Mogaji, Hikmot Anjorin, Victory Tony, Mayowa Jimoh and Deborah Enoch.
