I always put my money where my mouth is. I worked for a newspaper in Nigeria for three years (NEXT) and I am intimately familiar with how Nigerian writers are used and abused, so I don't need lectures from anyone about that subject. I do encourage our writers to continue to patronize our local publishers and they are. They must also foster competition and fairness (to writers) by seeking publishers outside Nigeria – in the West, South Africa, Ghana, anywhere. Ignore the hypocrites who tell you to invest only in Nigeria. They don't; they write books their children don't read, they teach in classrooms that do not house their children and build hospitals that will not treat their chickens. Their children and chickens are abroad while my siblings stew in the mediocrity of their offerings. The best way to improve upon the quality is to force the issue. What can it hurt; your best way to make it out alive is to cross that river. Yes, I said it, sue me.
- Ikhide
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