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Bello Hamisu Ida

Bello Hamisu Ida (Born 18 May 1984) is a Nigerian novelist, poet and short story writer; he came from the popular family known as Ida Family, his father Hamisu Ida is a junior brother to the Senator (Barr) Ibrahim Ida (CON). Bello Hamisu Ida has been a classroom teacher since 2009; he obtained his National Certificate in Education from Federal College of Education Katsina and studied Bachelor of Art in English Language at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University. He involved into creative writing immediately after he finished his Secondary School education; his ink usually reflects moral lessons for children, his books include; Legend of Bayajidda’, ‘Hikimarka Jarinka’ translated into English as ‘Wisdom is a Price’, Arabic Alphabets for Kids’, ‘ABC for Kids’ 1 to 3, Gizo and Honey Tree: and other Tales. He is now writing an African novel titled ‘My Beauty’. He wrote forty eight (48) books and 17 sonnets, He wrote some of his books from native Language and many others from English Language.

Personal Life and Education

Bello Ida was born in the city of Kaduna, when Katsina is under Kaduna State, his father was a banker. He is a second child of Hamisu Muhammad Ida and a senior brother to other eleven children in the household, later his father moved to Funtua Local Government where he grew up in a Hausa Family. Both Katsina and Funtua are northern part of Nigeria. When growing up his father was a banker while his mother is a full household wife, so he got what the child needs to grow in good care. But later in life they moved to his family’s ancestral town; Katsina.

Bello Ida studied Social Studies and Islamic studies at Federal College of Education for three year. During his time of study, he wrote many novels in his native Language, and edited others novels written by some writers. In 2008 he obtained National Certificate in Education and successfully became classroom teacher in 2009, he teaches at Primary Level.

In 2011, he entered university to study bachelor of art in English Language at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina. He received a bachelor’s degree in the year 2017. He is married with two kids.

He called 20 November a black day in his life because he lost his beloved sister Hauwa'u Hamisu Ida in this very day, he wrote his first novel under her name because she has high interest in reading novel and literature; he dedicated some of his poems to her, some of these poems are; "we lost the queen", "why death" and "at the back of my Heart".

In an interview with the Vision FM Katsina, he encouraged young writers to educate themselves before involve into creative writing, this will help them to write something important to their society; he said;

“I really encourage my mates, younger writers to educate themselves before writing anything;” — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.211.63.53 (talk) 10:22, 2 January 2017 (UTC) He married to Aisha Abba Lawal Funtua, they had two kids, Muhammad and Abdullahi.

Reference

1. "Bello Hamisu Ida". 18 Oct. 2016. Vision FM Katsina. Retrieved 18 Oct 2016.

2. "Picture of Bello Hamisu Ida". Katsina Post. Retrieved 12 Feb, 2016.

3. H.I Bello (2016), Arabic Alphabets for Kids: Melon Publishers Katsina