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ABOUT US:
Bola Dauda PhD, Life and Business
Coach, writer and public speaker.
 Bola Dauda is a son of a peasant
farmer and a petty trader from South Western Nigeria. His parents were
illiterate and he was the first to go to school among his extended
family. He researched his birthday and learned that he was born thirteen
days after a child whose birth was recorded on January 20, 1949. He
therefore calculated rightly or wrongly that he was born on February 1,
1949.
Bola’s parents divorced before he was one year old and his
extra-ordinary life experiences were informed by his informal and formal
education of growing up in a peasant community in Nigeria. He walked
over a mile to and fro everyday to attend a new village primary school.
He moved to a secondary school in town and also experienced seven years
of boarding schools’ life. He squatted for two years in the university
and had his one-year national youth service in the old Benue-Plateau
state of Nigeria. He has now lived for over twenty years in the
industrialised United Kingdom.
Obviously his varied experiences, insights, values and beliefs which
form the loud and clear poetic, philosophical and stoic voices of his
writings are shaped by his stern upbringing and many years of
interactions with the world. Dr Dauda had his first degree in social
sciences with honours in Government/Philosophy/Economics from the old
University of Ife renamed Obafemi Awolowo University and his master’s
and doctorate in Public Policy from the University of Liverpool. He is
an honorary fellow of the University of Leicester and a life member of
the UK Coaching Academy. He has travelled widely, and loves walking, and
reading people.
As a scholar he contributed chapters to books and published in reputable
academic journals in Europe, United States, Africa and Asia. His
writings had been translated into Spanish, Chinese and French. He is
written half a dozen books. His first book, The Will to Succeed,
Macmillan, 1981, sold over 100,000 copies. He is married with four
successful professional children. He lives in Great Britain and after
successful careers in the civil service and academia; he is now fulltime
writer, life coach, and runs home-based business to help people save
money or make money whichever they prefer! He also shuttles to visit his
family in Cambridge, London, Paris and Ibadan. Dr Dauda’s writings have
been universally acclaimed as refreshing, inspiring, uplifting,
truthful, down-to-earth and honest. He established Robin Books as a
publishing company in 2003.
Robin Books
Robin Books was established as limited
liability publishing company in 2003. It is primarily aimed to publish
self-help and inspirational books at affordable prices without
compromising quality. It welcomes manuscripts from beginners and
established writers. It would only accept manuscripts that could be
shared by families and that are subliminally appropriate to the
impressionistic minds of young people. It will not accept violent and
obscene scripts.
Robin Books is launching a new series: 360º Lifestyle Series. The
series will include fictions and non-fictions. They will be in pocket
size and between 30,000 and 50,000 words.
Please submit a hardcopy and a disk copy of your manuscripts,
word-processed in double line spacing to: The Editor, 360º Lifestyle
Series 3, The Boundary Lane, BURSCOUGH, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40
5XT, UK.
E-Book Series: Each book published will also be available as an
e-book. For a sample please click here.
Please allow for 12 weeks for editorial decision to accept or reject
manuscript for publication. Please enclose self-addressed and stamped
envelope, if you want rejected manuscripts to be returned to you.
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