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BABS SOARES

Babs Soares brings to Djarabi Kitabs an enviable track record as an author, diplomat, university professor, and head of a major government agency. Before branching out to creative writing, he published highly regarded books and over sixty peer-review articles on public and international affairs.  He is the founding editor of the African Journal of Public Administration and Management, a journal that he edited for eight years (1992-2000). He has also served as editorial adviser to publishing houses and to public administration journals.

He graduated B.A. (Hon) (Admin) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; and M.A. (Econ) (with Distinction) from the University of Manchester, UK. He also holds a PhD in public sector management from the University of Leeds., UK.

His twenty-year stint as a United Nations official afforded him an opportunity to travel to different parts of the world, to interact with people from different cultural backgrounds, and to appreciate the beauty of diversity. His travels have not only shaped his cosmopolitan worldview but have also served as an inspiration in his creative endeavors.

Dukyarian Rectangle is Soares’s second work of fiction, the first being Throne of Contention.

Soares is married with three children. He lives in Canada, while at the same maintaining ties with his country, Nigeria.

He is on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can follow him at his blog titled Dukyarian Chronicles.

HASSAN KHALID

Hassan is an enthusiast, who fell hard with the intricate mechanics of the human mind and emotions. He shaped his personal conquests and triumphs into systems and methods which anyone can easily learn to balance the ebbs and flows of their minds and connect it back to the Divine source to find peace, joy and tranquility. Khassan is an ardent researcher of spiritual solutions, a passionate practitioner of development and inner transcendence. In essence, he is a lifetime student learning from God given sources and sharing it with amazing humans across the world. Find him on Facebook at @WaswasOCDcure and check out his Amazon Author Page here.