Truths and Deeds!

The story of the Nigerian creative writer is different and often pitiful, hence his battles and challenges. Both the published and the upcoming are seldom encouraged or supported. The sort of attention paid to those in the field of Journalism is quite different from that which is paid to a creative writer. Unlike in the western world where the writer does not experience this sort of disadvantage but for the support from their government and other organizations, in terms of the monetary percentage that the government sets aside for published authors and their works. In Nigeria, the government and organizations are too busy with their own affairs to spare time and funds for writers. When a Nigerian writes and manages to publish, the next challenge becomes how to distribute and sell. There are no clear distribution channels. The writer is then forced to move from location to location in trying to attract sales. The audience also present another dead end. They hardly ever buy. Nigerians