I wonder how the Professor of Buckingham Palace English would have answered the question. I imagine that he would have probably been bristling with indignation. I would love to have heard how tenderly Don Pius Adesanmi would have dealt with her. It's easy to take that sort of question as an insult to the Naija nation even if bookshops are few and far between. You don't ask that sort of question about the United States, the United Kingdom or France. A French journalist with the chutzpah to enquire of best selling author Chimamanda, if there are any bookshops in Nigeria is really about the literacy rate in the country ( in Boko Haram country) or probably a roundabout way of asking if she; Soyinka, Achebe, Cole etc are being read by her countrymen and countrywoman or do people read in Nigeria? Certainly a different order of reality from asking, are there any snakes, tigers, lions, in Africa or crocodiles in the Niger Delta ?
Like (according to Paul Theroux ) a very distraught Naipaul on hearing that Wole Soyinka had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, asking, " Has he written anything?"
Of relevance, last night on BBC World : Macron pledges 200 million euros to fund education
Macron promises 200 million euros (about $ 250 million ) to fund global education...
From the France Diplomacy Twitter account : Macron : "Victor Hugo said that to open a school is to shut down a prison. We want to shut down many prisons.
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:01:05 UTC+1, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso wrote:
A French journalist this week asked Chimamanda whether there were bookstores in Nigeria. Seriously.--Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, PhD.,
Department of Political Science and Public Administration,
Babcock University,
Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.
PMB 4010, Babcock University, Nigeria.
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