DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING READING COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA: A MULTIMEDIA APPROACH

Emmanuel C. Ifeduba, christianah O. Onigbinde

Abstract


The aim of this paper is to present an optimistic perspective to the on-going debate on Nigeria’s poor reading culture by proposing a community-based innovative model. The model–The Multi-Media Community Reading Model--is a scholarly renovation of the African concept of community learning which encourages group approach to storytelling. Three concepts:  Orality, Community and Convergence are the building blocks with which an attempt is made to take advantage of radio stations, television stations, virtual communities, online forums and online book clubs to encourage an interface between a waning culture and an emerging one, between a weak reading tradition and modernity. It is recommended that pilot reading communities should be introduced by universities and governments, using some identified online and offline communities as demonstration communities. Some Nigeria-based online book clubs are also recommended as possible experimentation platforms.


Keywords


Reading, Community, Innovations Participation, Multi-Media Model, Convergence, Nigeria.

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