It is no longer news that reading culture in Africa and in most especially Nigeria has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous due to the unpleasant situation in the history of Nigeria. Coupled with economic crunch, unavailability of public libraries, lackadaisical approach of parents towards their children’s educations, strong contentions among the youths such as sports, music auditioning, movies etc., lack of competitions, low level of research in schools, internet and so on. The undisputed fact is that the zeal to read books has been consumed by the fire of mediocrity, ignorance, indifference, and low financial empowerment, to which the WRITES Africa project has come to proffer lasting solution.

The WRITES Africa project is thereby designed to sound a clarion call to revive the reading culture in Nigeria and Africa at large. WRITES Africa is an Africanwide readership promotion scheme that will inculcate the reading and writing spirit into the innermost recesses of the hearts of African youths. The Readers Game of Success (RGS) competition is a wonderful project for all youths in all walks of life. This concept includes all aspects of a real educational project. The participants have to work as a team, study selected books together, deal with critical points in the books, undertake questions, analyze answers, find solutions for a given problem as it appears in the books and much more. For these future leaders in business, politics, religions etc. it is often their first contact with a complete self-development and empowerment project in a plucky manner and this will help them become more critic of results or interpretations of test results and it will help them in discovering and developing their talents.

The WRITES Africa project is a reality TV show and it has been designed to allow youths involved in the Nation building through self-discovering reading and this project will be coming up on air every week at the Readers' Camp – A Mini Campus where Nigerian youths will be visiting every now and then to equip and re-equip ther minds. This will help cage the spirit of restiveness plaguing the youths in every nook and cranny of Nigeria. At the Readers Camp, they also meet with the writers of their favourite books and interact with them. The most important activity to be taking place at the Readers’ Camp is the playing of Readers Game of Success (RGS), which will be putting a lot of money in ther pockets.

I truly believe that WRITES Africa project is an important asset in the world of youth developments! BUT! The big question here is 'Can Nigerian youths embrace and pamper this new baby?' Let's hear your view.

Newspaper readership pattern among Nigerian youths. (a case study of imt students)

In a study by Elizabeth R. Hurlock it was discovered that, ‘interest in newspaper reading  vary according to age and intellectual level of the reader and there are marked sex difference in the preferred sections of the newspaper” (1955, page 10)

http://www.scharticles.com/newspaper-readership-pattern-among-nigerian-youths/