The New SDG Book Club African Chapter Releases Its First Reading List
Selections for the African chapter of the Sustainable Development Goals Book Club include two titles in Indigenous African languages.
Schoolchildren go to school by way of Beach Kiwengwa in Tanzania’s Zanzibar. Two of the books chosen for the inaugural collection of the African chapter of the SDG Book Club are from Tanzania. Image – iStockphoto: AfricanWay
Opening with Goals 1 and 2: Poverty and Hunger
As so many statements were being made by so many organizations in so many places on Friday’s 2021 World Book and Copyright Day (April 23), one you may have missed was about the newly created African chapter of the SDG Book Club.
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TRAVELOGUE: The water in this Akwa Ibom river is unbelievably green at all times
“Awe-struck, I covered my face with both palms so that the enigmatic river would not stare at me and I would not see it either.”
We had planned to visit the strange river on Monday, April 26, 2021.
But Thomas Thomas, the ‘Mungo Park’ of the Green River and my tour guide, was hard to track down on D-day.
A struggling but brilliant journalist, he had choked up his itinerary to the brim on Monday, in his quest to make ends meet. But today, I was too determined to let him off the hook, until he escorted me to the unusual river that he first reported a week ago.
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All is set for the unveiling of this book this weekend in Uyo as several billboards, invitation cards and letters of invitation have announced.
Every piece of literature is meant to pass a message. While literary theorists could argue that some pieces of literature are better appreciated by form and structure, rather than by content, such forms and structure would best be seen as the very import of such literary creation. What could best attain acceptance as the purpose of literature, remains the fact that literature is life. Life, in this perspective, is not the life we live. It is a creation beyond human life.