Why Nigerian authors are not celebrated like musicians
Editor's note: Rotimi Victor Boluwatife, the Legit.ng partner blogger, in this piece explains why Nigerian authors are not celebrated like musicians.
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In Nigeria we don’t celebrate authors the way we celebrate musicians and actors. The simple reason adduced to this is that our reading habit very poor. Authors are writers of a work or play and without them the successful peoples in the world won’t have got to the top ladder. They are very key to the success of doctors, lawyers, engineers and many more.
They write and we read, they are knowledge sharers, they bring out little out of the knowledge they acquired so that the knowledge will not die with them. Also, they are entertainers like musicians, actors, comedians and many more but here in Nigeria we don’t recognise them and even the little we recognise are materials of America.
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Nigerian Authors deserve to be celebrated because even the Nigerian films we watch are written by them. Authors like J.K Rowling the author of “Harry Potter” is being celebrated in British and even the whole word, Ben Carson a neurosurgeon and an author is a bestseller in USA and even in the world, in Nigeria we only have best film producer, best actor and best musician but we don’t have bestselling authors.
Authors of text books like Mathematics, English, Physics, Government and many more deserve to be known and celebrated because they are doing a great job. Nigeria authors deserve to be called to shows to perform be it a story writers, motivational writers, educational writers, script writers or any niche because they are doing a great job.
In Nigeria, we don’t have many full time writers but we only have many passionate writers who are just writing because they love to do so, why don’t we have a full time writer, because they are not recognized, not appreciated and not patronised, Nigerians only patronise foreign writers instead of their own writers.
In the 1990s, we had Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka but in this generation, we only have the American brought ups and not our own brought ups, if students are called to mention authors they know, most of them will mention foreign authors and few will mention Nigeria authors.
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Also Nigeria authors deserve to be given endorsement, ambassadors and even to be used for advertisement of any product in Nigeria to encourage them and even to motivate the coming generation so they can go into writing and also to make the industry a better place to invest.
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