When I became a writer, I noticed that Nigerians don't read Nigerian books so often. It's not as if Nigerians don't read but they prefer reading American and European books because Nigerian book don't inspire them due to the fact that Nigerian writers are not inspired. From their cover design to their content, there is nothing about their books that can arouse curiousity in a reader to pick up their books to read.
Even the Nigerian best writers only write shadows of what had been written before with an improved tune, vocabulary, style and flavour. Only for them to realise that its not enough to replace what's missing.
How do we get a reader to keep reading something they had read before?
Some began to package those books with great cover yet, if contents do have outstretched arms, they are too pale to touch the reader's heart.
Some writers claim their books are inspired but what these writers do is to draw down their writings from current trends. So it can seem appealing to readers. But then books are influence. An influence coming from an uninspired book cannot motivate a reader to continue reading.
An influence from a book that is not inspired cannot give the reader maximum satisfaction. It lacks the capacity to equip the reader with cognitive tools to solve any problem.
Thats the reason some Nigerian graduates are unable to solve their unemployment problems despite all the motivational books available.
The most dangerous aspect of the whole story is that this Nigerian writers have figured out the best way to sell their uninspired books. Which is getting uninspired educational sector to approve of those books to be read in schools. Further destroying the dying interest in students to read.
Reading to pass exams can never improve the reading culture of a people. It kills it instead. No wonder some Nigerians had not read a single novel after writing their final exams.
I felt concerned, then I went to God the original source to draw inspired content that will elevate the dying interest of my people to read.
You need to glance through this inspired book to see for yourself...
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