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Nigerian Reading Campaign Tagged ‘Bring Back the Book Culture’
The worrisome dearth experienced in the readership culture of Nigerians over the years have undoubtedly, resulted in several initiatives by both individuals and organisations, aimed at encouraging people to go back to reading .
It was in line with that move that the number one citizen of the country, President Goodluck Jonathan launched a reading campaign tagged, Bring Back The Book Culture, which charged Nigerians to imbibe the habit of reading so as to enhance human and material productivity.
The president’s Bring back the Book Culture may have finally received the boost it needed to create a positive change in people’s attitude towards the print as exhibited by the children during the 2011 CORA Book Party held at Eko Hotel and Suites last week.
At the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas endowed Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Party the turn out of children, the enthusiasm with which they participated in reading, book reviews and the question segments, which were quite overwhelming, all exposed the secret yearnings of the young ones to record their names in the annals of history as great authors of this age.
It was a complete book feast for children and watching the students of Alakoto Senior Secondary School Ajegunle read out their reviews of the six shortlisted books and thereafter, intelligently answering questions posed by the coordinator of the segment, Dagga Tolar during a conversation around the six books, climaxing in one of them, advocating for the institution of Children Prize for Literature, proves that the children book party which is third in the series is a landmark initiative by CORA.
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