{"id":912,"date":"2024-05-21T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=912"},"modified":"2024-08-27T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:10:58","slug":"umar-abubakar-sidi","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/umar-abubakar-sidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Umar Abubakar Sidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Umar Abubakar Sidi<\/em> is a poet, soldier, aviator, and author of Masobe\u2019s first poetry collection \u201cLike Butterflies Scattered about by Art Rascals.\u201d A helicopter pilot with the Nigerian Navy, he attended the prestigious Nigerian Military School, Zaria and the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. He is the author of the poetry collection, \u201cThe Poet of Dust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sidi\u2019s work is majorly premised on the exploration of the body, soul and spirit from Sufi and Surrealist perspectives. His works have appeared in <strong>Brittle Paper<\/strong>, <strong>Transition Magazine<\/strong>, <strong>Jalada<\/strong>, <strong>Saraba Magazine<\/strong> and elsewhere. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria. <strong>The Incredible Dreams of Garba Dakaskus<\/strong> is his first novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4327,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-912","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Umar Abubakar Sidi - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/umar-abubakar-sidi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Umar Abubakar Sidi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Umar Abubakar Sidi is a poet, soldier, aviator, and author of Masobe\u2019s first poetry collection \u201cLike Butterflies Scattered about by Art Rascals.\u201d A helicopter pilot with the Nigerian Navy, he attended the prestigious Nigerian Military School, Zaria and the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. 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