USA Africa Dialogue Series - : 7 milion manufacturing workers for books

7 miilion manufacturing workers visit the website of the Pan African universty press towards building your family library or factory library or community.library.talk to a librarian. Talk to your chairman about your new found love of books fiction and non fictionAugustine Togonu-BickerstethAutomobiles Manufacturing 7 million manufacturing workers, it was Baba Agba,Chief Adeola Odutola who remarked if you think education is expensive try ignorance. One of his favourite sayings. First president of manufacturing association of nigeria. 7 million manufacturjng workers embrace the book.work by day and read by evening and night. Thats how the usa was built. Papa obafemi awolowo read 8 hours a day. You are not obafemi awolowo so read 4 hours a day. the Family Library: for 19 milion households costing 20 milion naira. A house without books or without readers is a House without windows. .the crisis of nigeria today is a crisis of a people who do not read. Crisis of the poor and crisis of the rich. A book has just been launched in nigeria written by segun aganga Williams Goldman sachs investment banker and former minister .have you bought it? What about Project nigeria by kunle oshobi? We need a critical mass of readers.wole soyinka cannot read everything. You have a car in our garage costing 400.000 dollars but you do not have a book costing up to 45 dollars in your house! Her are some of the best minds writing on Africa and nigeria serious scholars - like Falola, Ogundiran, Wariboko, Agozino, Ochonu, Kperogi, etc., etc that should be made readily available to the average reader but absolutely For your family library.can you identify any one of them ¹9 milion nigerian families should be able to identify them and collect their books.they are a resource. 19 milion nigerians can afford to build houses costing 20 milion naira but 19 milion books not sold.its tragic.read a book today or like wole soyinka read like a magpie

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