•GLENDORA BOOKS SUPPLEMENT* Publisher Olakunle Tejuoso Editor-in-chief Dapo Adeniyi Graphics Consultant Felix Omorogbe Production Consultant Dayo Anthony Computer Manager Gabriel K. Ojugoh Advert Director Fidelis Akpon Jnr. Marketing Manager Titilola A. Shoneyin Glendora Books Supplement (ISSUE NO. 2) is published quarterly by Glendora International (Nigeria) Limited. Tel: 686870, 680089/2692762 or Fax: Lagos 2618083 or e/mail: 105271,11 ©CompuServe.com. CORRESPONDENCE Africa: Glendora Review, 168, Awolowo Road, P. O. Box 50914, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria Tel: 01-2692762 North America: 7471, Watt Avenue, Suite 109-253 North Highlands, CA 95660 Europe: Glendora Review, c/o BKB COURIERS LTD. 12, Gatwick Metro Centre, Balcombe Road, Horley Surrey RH6 9GA, U.K. DISTRIBUTION: North America OAN, 15 W39th St. NY, 10018-3906. Europe: Africa Book Centre, 38 King Street, London, WC2E8JT, UK Africa/Europe: Contact: Toyin Tejuoso, Glendora, P. O. Box 50914, Falomo, Lagos. Nigeria. Phone: 2692762. 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They are invited to respond to the Prize Question in a creative way and from whatever happens to be their own cultural perspective and background. Essayists are expected to provide the most convincing and conclusive solution possible in a spirit of open competition. On the threshold of a new millennium, this international competition of minds hopes to become a symbols of a creative and coopera- tive global society for the 21st century. The Prize Question: Liberating the Future from the past? Liberating the past from the Future? Prizes Authors of essays rated first, second and third will be awarded prizes of DM50,000, DM30,000 and DM20,000 respectively. In addition, these authors will be invited to the official award presentation at Weimar, scheduled to take place late in 1999. Prize-winners, as well as authors of other outstanding contributions, will receive a grant or stipend covering several months of study in Germany. Award-winning essays, along with a choice of entries pre-selected for the final Jury, will be published in the different national editions of Lettre Interna- tional and in other literary magazines. A book containing a selection of those essays presented to the Final Jury will also be published in German and other languages. Conditions of Participation Anyone may participate, except for Contest jurors and staff of Lettre International and Weimar 1999 - European City of Culture GmbH. Essays may be submitted in any of the six official UN languages, i.e. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish, as well as in German, the Contest organisers host language. Essays may not be submitted which, prior to the official presentation of awards, have been either previously published or offered to third parties for publication, or which have been entered in any other competition. Essays should be sent to the International Essay Prize Contest's Secretariat in two typescript copies or via e-mail no later than November 30, 1998. Date as postmark or e-mail protocol. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Authors of award-winning essays confer the unrestricted right of reproduction - also transferable to third parties - to the Contest organisers. This includes the right of translation and dissemination of essays in any way or form, either in part or in full, and in all language. Authors whose essays have been presented to the Final Jury, but have not been awarded a prize, likewise confer the right of »P.23 •GLENDORA BOOKS SUPPLEMENT- ISSUE NUMBER TWO • 1997 P.2 « reproduction to the Contest holders. In case of publication, these authors will each receive a single remuneration of DM500. In the event that essays are published in book form, their authors will receive an additional fee of at least 8 per cent of the sale price, proportionate to the length of their essay in relation to the length of the entire book. Texture Requirements Essays submitted must not exceed the following limits in length: 70,000 characters in German, 64,000 characters in English, French or Spanish, 62,000 characters in Russian 15,000 signs in Chinese, 54,000 characters in Arabic. In addition, an abstract of no more than two pages must be appended to each essay. Essays must be submitted in sealed envelopes. Text should contain no reference to the author's name(s) or identity. Names and address of sender should be supplied in a separate, sealed envelope. Essays trans- ferred via e-mail must be sent as attach- ments. Procedure of the Contest All contributions will be anonymised by the Contest's Secretariat furnished with a numeral code and then passed on to juries. Award-winners will be chosen in a two- step selection process. The Final Jury will choose prize winners from a maximum of 49 entries. 1. Between December 1, 1998 and May 31, 1999, seven preparatory sub-juries (one for each Contest language) will evaluate all contributions received in their respective language. Each jury will then propose a selection of no less than three essays to the Final Jury. The sub-juries will be allocated additional essays for presentation to the Final Jury in proportion to the total number of entries received in their respective language. 2. Entries selected by sub-juries will subsequently be presented to the Final - international and interdisciplinary - Jury. The latter's final selection of award-winners will be notified and prizes presented at an official ceremony at Weimar towards the end of 1999. The seven sub-juries and the Final Jury will be composed and appointed by the Contest organisers in the course of 1998, in close cooperation with the Interna- tional Essay Prize Contest's Board of Curators. Board of Curators: Sadiq Al-Azm (Syria), Benjamin Baber (USA), Sergio Benvenuto (Italy), Carmen Boullosa (Mexico), Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal), Jochen Gerz (Germany), Nilufer Gole (Turkey), Agnes Heller (USA/Hungary), Rebecca Horn (Germany), Kojin Karatani (Japan), Santiago Kovadloff (Argentine), Horst Kurnitzky (Germany), Liu Xiaofeng (Hongkong/China), Fatima Mernissi (Morrocco), Masao Miyoshi (USA/Japan), Edgar Morin (France), Gabriel Motzkin (Israel), Pius Ngandu Nkashama (France/ Congo), Ryosuke Ohashi (Japan), Mikhail Ryklin (Russia), Joachim Sartorius (Ger- many), Juan Villoro (Mexico), Yang Lian (UK/China), Yu Jian (China), Slavoj Zizek (Slovenia) Address of the International Essay Prize Contest's Secretariat International Essay Prize Contest - Rosenthaler Strasse 13 10119 Berlin Germany. e-mail: Essay.Lettre@Weimarl999.de Internet: www.weimarl999.de/Essay- contest Arts and Development UNESCO's concern for the use of art as a vehicle for engineering social progress articulated at the end of the World Decade for Cultural Development has triggered a long line of activities worldwide, altogether forming what has presently gained currency as Arts and Development. The most current being Arts and Development II: Perspec- tives Through Theatre holding in Ibadan, Nigeria. The venue, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) between February 21 and 26, 1998, hosts speakers and theatre practitioners from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Zambia, Ghana, the United States of America and En- gland. Workshop chairman is Martin Banham, theatre studies professor, University of Leeds, England. Since Tim Butchard submitted his report on The Arts and Development to the British Council in March 1995, consortia of arts practitioners have met at different times to enrich the agenda and to devise operational strategies in Lagos, Harare, Chicago, Yaounde and London.