When we commenced arrangements to inaugurate a functional and rejuvenated National Reading Week programme several weeks back, we were not too sure of how everything would play out. Overall, we still are not.
But we are encouraged.
We are encouraged that from across the length and breadth of this country, people are standing up to be counted. From Ibadan to Asaba, Enugu to Abuja the groundswell of interest and support has been most remarkable.
Volunteers are signing up across the country, schools are taking up their spots in the motivational schools segment of the package and publishers are throwing in their bit.
The bookselling community has also been wonderful. Several are, at their own expense, organizing joining events that would help make the splash and call in the sustained attention to things books that is at the core of the event.
We would equally not forget the reading teachers and literacy instructors that are playing a major role in the activities for the year. They have truly been most wonderful.
The dates once again are April 23 to 30 and the breakdown of activities include a readers/celebrities/students reading colloquium, a training workshop for reading instructors/teachers, motivational sessions at school assembly grounds, an online story-writing project and reading sessions at bookshops and community centers
Which now leaves us with you, yes you. There is some place for you in the entire programme and the best way for you to find this is to send us a mail ASAP. Use this line: richard.mammah@gmail.com
Thank you for being there for us, for our nation and our people in these times where very clearly, the reader is king. You are most welcome.
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