![]() ![]() ![]() of the publisher Bookcraft, which counts the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka among its authors, told me. “It takes anything from three to five years to sell off a print run of about two thousand to three thousand books,” Bankole Olayebi, the C.E.O. “Nigerians don’t take reading seriously,” she said, adding that she has observed a dramatic decrease in the sale of fiction. For the past eleven years, Jemiyo Ariyo has worked as a salesperson at The Booksellers Limited, in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. ![]() Abysmal sales at bookshops across the country are presented as evidence. The falling standard of education, increasing culture of materialism, poverty, and online distractions are given as reasons for this alleged loss of interest. PHOTOGRAPH BY AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE / REUTERS / CORBISĪt almost every Nigerian literary event I have attended, the topic of the country’s lack of reading culture has come up. As Nigeria struggles to promote reading, some booksellers are finding more success than others. ![]()
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