I am excited to know Port Harcout will again be hosting UNESCO World Book Capital for this year, taking it from Bangkok as the host city. This is a happy development in a country and a place where it is believed that people generally do not read. Nigeria, the giant of Africa, who once prided itself as a vibrant intellectual nation with super brains to boast of in personalities like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Flora Nwapa and the first black Nobel Laurette, Prof Wole Soyinka who will be giving key note address for the festival.
As an author and a publisher I am happy that Nigeria is hosting the intellectual world to celebrate intellectual properties and the love of books. I hope to be in Port Harcourt to participate in the august event and I hope to see you there. I still believe that modernity and civilisation is created in art first before it is becomes a living history in cities around the world. Let's read books. Readers are leaders.
Aluta continua,
Wale Owoeye Esq.
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