Hundreds of participants gathered at the Ndubuisi Kanu Park in Alausa Lagos to participate in the 3rd edition of the Ignite Africa Readers R Leaders Destiny walk. The event featured music, comedy, networking sessions, drama and dance. Ignite Africa Readers R Leaders Destiny Walk is an awareness campaign focused on the reading culture in Nigeria. The 2016 walk included a stop at the Ignite Africa ultra-modern Library and resource center in Ikeja, Lagos.
22 Reasons Why We Need To Create Awareness To Revive The Reading Culture
- The main goal of reading is to develop your intellectual capacity, much that you can confidently compete on the world stage.
- The quality of your knowledge determines the quality of who you will attract into your life.
- What are industry Leaders & top innovators doing that set them apart? A huge personal bookshelf
- Not going to school is not an excuse for ignorance, you can teach and develop yourself into the best from reading.
- A country will always remain a third world nation until it identifies itself. You explore knowledge to find out who you are.
- When opportunities and understandings are blocked, moral decay and crime is the resultant effect.
- Love, respect, and trust are the most important aspects of all relationships. Knowledge helps you maintain it.
- If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got. Read to know more!
- When good reading and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- READ while you still can, to build a solid foundation for excellence.
- Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. — John F. Kennedy
- If You Can Read & Don’t Read, Then Depend On Idiots for Your Information, You Are Not Different from Them. – Comedian Ali Baba
- You will never be a great leader unless you first learn… it all begins with the Books. See these great leaders: Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Tafawa Balewa etc…
- Leadership is not an elite club for a certain few. It is the true essence of committed Readers.
- The future is waiting, but it will never side with ignorance. It will function with knowledge to see you excel. READ.
- To sustainably develop as a nation, and stand tall on the world stage, we must work towards becoming a nation of readers.
- Life is risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all cost, and that is the risk of not Reading.
- You don’t stop Reading and learning when you grow old, you grow old when you stop Reading and learning.
- We all must do our part in creating a literacy-rich culture and environment that supports independent Reading for our students.
- Do not stand by and watch ignorance take over our nation. Let’s promote the Reading Culture
- If we don’t do right educationally by the younger generation, we all will suffer the consequences
- A great revolution in just one single person will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society
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