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Founder of
the Rainbow Foundation and Programme Director of the UNESCO Port Harcourt World
Book Capital 2014 project, Mrs. Odo Claire ‘Koko’ Kalango, has been nominated
for the prestigious national honour of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON)
by President Goodluck Jonathan.
She joins a
list of over 300 awardees that are being honoured for their service to the
benefit of the nation.
In her
teenage years, Mrs. Koko Kalango emerged a prize winner of the Mobil National
Essay Competition with the title ‘What can I do for my country?’ and
represented Nigeria at the Kirby Smith Youth Camp organised by the Lions Club
in Arizona for promising leaders.
After
spending five years writing a weekly lifestyle column in This Day newspapers,
she founded the Rainbow Book Club and kicked off the ‘Get Nigeria Reading
again!’ campaign in 2005.
In recognition of her work, she was invited to
serve on the READ Campaign of the Federal Ministry of Education (in 2007) and
sponsored by the British Council to represent Nigeria at the Edinburgh
International Book Festival (2010).
Koko has worked in Nigeria, the United Kingdom
and the United States, with experience in Education, Communications and Social
Development.
She is the
Festival Director of the Garden City Literary Festival, now Port Harcourt Book
Festival. A graduate of French from the University of Benin and International
Relations from the University of Lancaster, Koko has also been a member of the
Royal Institute of International Affairs as well as the Royal African Society.
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