Nwuliareads Initiative: Pictures: Nwuliareads Initiative distributes over 100 literary resources to Students in Lagos, Nigeria

On 20^th July 2017, Nwuliareads Initiative, an education development social enterprise, held a literary outreach at the Department of Art and Industrial Design, Lagos State Polytechnic. Led by its Southwest coordinator, Mutiu Yusuf, the initiative in a chat with students, advised on ways that will see the students read beyond the prescribed texts required of them.

In the words of the coordinator who equally was from the Art background, “a student armed with knowledge of his field and other fields is better off than the student that is only informed about his field. The world has already evolved to the information age where the better informed play more roles than the under-informed and some of these knowledge are hidden in books which can be only be discovered by reading widely and diverse.”

In a way of support, the department Staff Adviser, Mr. Kehinde Adepegba, a writer and an author of many books, urged the students to maintain a vast library and avoid being swept away by the tides of social media.

There was Question and Answers segment where the students and the Nwuliareads team interacted effectively on the wonders of reading. At the end, 100 Literary materials and novels, donated by Nkem Akinsoto with the pen name Myne Whitman, a renowned Nigerian writer, were given to the hundreds of students and lecturers available as a little gesture to encourage their reading culture.