User talk:Seunlw

Lari Williams, a Member, Federal Republic of Nigeria (M.F.R) started his professional life as a writer cum reporter with West African Pilot. He later trained at the London school of journalism, park lane, London, before going into acting. He gained scholarship from the Harringay Borough; North London to train at the prestigious Stratford East 15 Acting School, Loughton Essex and still on scholarship did his finishing (Directing and Speech) at the Mountview theatre school, London. He also had fellowship in writing at the University of Iowa U.S.A. He has however since then kept a strong loyalty in both acting and writing.

Chief Lari as a seasoned professional actor with experience on radio, stage, and T.V both home and abroad holds an unequalled record of appearances in Nigeria television series so far, starting with the very first “The Village Headmaster, For better or Worse, Jagua Nana’s Daughter e.t.c” to his earlier “Living for tomorrow and Heaven’s gate”.

As a writer, Chief Lari Williams is a member of Writer’s Guild of Great Britain, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) etc. His favourite pastime is drumming and performing his poems with his Yala Percussion Band. He is author of several anthologies such as; Drumcall, Black Current, Heartlines and so on. He also wrote plays which includes; Awero, Home to Ajegunle, Kolanut junction e.t.c.

Lari keeps writing. He has kept a newspaper column “Stage and Screen” in the vanguard newspaper since 1987. On October 25th 2007, he celebrated 40 years in arts, stage, screen, radio and nonstop writing. He has however made a strong impact in the educational sector as a lecturer in three Nigerian Universities which are Lagos State University (LASU), University of Lagos (UNILAG) and University of Calabar (UNICAL).

Seunlw (talk) 09:47, 4 October 2015 (UTC)