An article ... NIGERIANS DO NOT READ
written by Ebube Christian uchendu

Chief editor
Was edited by
Mrs Deborah onyedikachi
(Bsc in English language)

Dr Nnaemeka ugwu
(MA)

After my recently literary researches in Education patterns revealed that Nigerians hardly have time to read.In essence ,the reading culture in Nigeria is now a low Webb. It is disturbing, however, that the few Nigerian that read concentrate more on foreign books than indigenous productions. Most Nigerian authors of novel ,story book,fictions and non fiction series have decried ,on different occasions, their woes.They were bitter at the way most owners of bookshop and publishers treat them .It was gathered that most renowned bookshops in Nigeria hardly sell books written by indigenous authors .They preferred to stock foreign books .When contacted by INDIGENOUS PUBLISHED ,the general manager of a popular bookstore on Enugu declared that most of bookshop preferred to stock foreign books because of higher demands of them.The question that bothers most Nigerian authors is,while their overseas counterparts are being rewarded with great international hounors ,Why are Nigerians not according them such recognition in their country yard.

Recently, Nigerian novelist chidmamanda Ngozi Adichie ,won the 2007 orange prize award, the literary world's top award for fiction in English written by woman.The award carries a prize of $30,000 ,It was reported in publishers weekly Half of a yellow sun ,the book the earned her the award ,was profoundly gripping.According to the reviewers the book is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs ,most notably its diction of the impact of war brutalities on peasants. It is a searing history in fictional form.intensely evocative and immensely absorbing chinua Achebe ,Father of modern of African literature' also won the second ever man booker international prize 60,000 with his first novel "things fall apart" ,published in 1958 .When professor wole soyinka won the Noble prize for literature 1986 ,the fame confirmed the relevance of Nigerians in the world of classical excellence. Ben Okri won won the 1991 Booker prize with his work , The famished Road ,and the world celebrated Nigeria as the giant of Africa it was also gathered that most of publishers hurriedly produce book and in the process marred their good content most of the books are not properly edited and eventually become substandard when compared with foreign products ,The extent to which book publishing standard has fallen in Nigeria is alarming .Often Nigerian publishers have been blamed for this .It is instructive that none of the books mentioned had been published in Nigeria.It was discovered that most students in tertiary institutions depends on dictations from their lectures or handouts .A science lecturer in one of the Nigeria university, who had been a victim of handout who writes primary novels ,Told INDIGENOUS PUBLISHED the reality of campus challenges in relation to books .I was forced to dictate notes slowly to students who hung on my every word in the absence of textbooks in a library that had ,,to all intent and purpose, stopped buying new books when the local currency was devalued .But what alternative do we have.

.....Special thanks to ....
Mr&Mrs Okafor
Barr chukwuemeka .O
Dr Nnaemeka Ugwu
Mrs Deborah onyedikachi
Mr&Mrs Emmanuel Okoye
His royal Highness igwe Charles agbala