₦airaland Forum

SAMBARRY:
exactly meanwhile in developed societies movies are an instrument of enlightenment or encouraging learning. Look at the movie akeelah and the bee.

I remember those days when we were kids we were so eager to watch speak out on nta.a debate programme on tv to help teens sharpen their debate skills and their intelligence but look at the thrash all over the tv.things of value that should educate and entertain kids and teens are no longer shown instead its aki and paw paw teaching kids how to steal another person's farm products and other nonsense.

Meanwhile its only few of this nollywood movie makers that are educated especially in the yoruba genre. A large number of them are illiterates and semi illiterates yet we expose children to learn from illiterates via nollywood home video

even the so-called kiddies' programmes nowadays only have avenues for singing and dancing competition, nothing academic to enhance their intellectual development. the solution starts with the families controlling what their kids are exposed to. gone are the days when parents bought books for their kids, all what most parents are concerned with these days is to make their kids stand out in terms of clothing and possession.

SAMBARRY:
even the mediocre movies nollywood is churning out is not helping matters at all .The way they downplay and, ridicule scholars and make them look weird in movies is not helping matters at all.

They make it look like scholars are poor hungry and frustrated people who are only obsessed with sleeping with students. All PhD and masters graduates are jobless who work for illiterates and semi illiterates because they are "over educated"

they have succeeded in making some people think that your education or certificates is not important

SAMBARRY:
You're very right. The society doesn't reward reading again. Look at the mullions of naira given to girls who walk naked on the run way or do miss campus then compare it with what they give a first class graduate. In fact they will say this one like book make we dash am laptop.

Those days as a young student in the university, our departmental association will contribute money to invite scholars into our university for public lecture. Those days we will invite wole soyinka, r.f ola, Francis enemuo etc for public lectures and workshops but today


you will see students contributing money to invite wizkid that will sing for 10minutes and will collect all the money you saved to watch his show. The money you could have used in buying a book


I told my kid brother who is one of the student union members in his university why him and his fellow sug members cannot invite reputable scholars and scientists for public symposiums and lectures . He said if they do that nobody will come and they won't regain their money so they need to invite musicians and all that.

Even in nysc camp too that should be an opportunity for people to upgrade and rub minds intellectually, they are busy talking about who is richer than who, who can sing better than who, who has the biggest breast and all

you read my mind...plenty hugs to you

true, our reading culture has gone from bad to worse, and this has reflected on the kind of comments some people make when articles or topics are posted. I've observed that in most cases, they make comments that are "off points" because they do not take their time to read the article while some others just ask people who have read it to summarize for them.