A Vote For Fidelity Bank

 

Someone was quoted thus: “If you want to hide anything from Africans, hide it in a book, they would never find it”. However right or wrong that statement might be, I want to thank the Fidelity Bank for the benevolence gesture it initiated and invited Wainana Binyavanga and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, two African writers, who have, among others, brought dignity and honour to Africa, especially to the world of writers with their creative stories, to participate in the recently held writing workshops in Enugu and Lagos respectively.

 

Such initiative is a welcomed development because it will enhance the prolific production of good writers in Nigeria who would be famous in the mere future and compete with their foreign counterparts.

 

If the Nigerian government thus were helping in the same way Fidelity Bank did, writing in Nigeria would have been a lucrative business where the Nigerian writers would break the scene without much qualms, just the way their foreign counterparts are taken so seriously.

 

As much as I like what Fidelity Bank did, in the same vein, I would like to see other organizations join suit in the crusade of talent-enhancement. Because, the African child has a lot of story to tell, and should not be allowed to go with them into the grave.

 

Odimegwu Onwumere,

writes from Oyigbo, Rivers State, Nigeria.