''Many Nigerian Women Don’t Know How to Read''.

 

Many Nigerian Women Don’t Know How to Read.

Susan  Uchenna holds the view that Nigerian women do not know how to read and posted an article on Information Nigeria.Is the intellectual deficiency and poor reading culture a gender issue in Nigeria? Is it just Nigerian women that have this trait or both gender? I got a surprise a few weeks ago when I visited  The Hub in Enugu,I noticed their office space had been re-arranged but they now had fewer books and more electronic gadgets, when I inquired on the low number of books, I was told that people in Enugu State do not read but more people read in Lagos so they had to send  a great number of their books to Lagos.Enugu prides itself with a good number of schools and Institutions of Higher Learning so I was taken aback by their comments.

Susan's article:

And they say “What a man can do, a woman can do better!” It may be true of the western women who try to demonstrate a remarkable showmanship in an effort to topple the achievements of their male counter parts.
In Nigeria, women don’t even try. For instance, why is it that of all the articles posted online and in print, the most responsive audience are men? Even those written exclusively for women are responded on by men!
Recently I read several posts on different websites commenting on various news updates from the Boston bombings to why women work. There were at least 1807 responses from women. Now if you agree with me, this is not obtainable in Nigeria.
Our women are generally responsive only to social gossip and entertainment updates; even at that they just skim the headlines and run off to share the latest info with friends. In my previous post I commented on the prudence of Islamic girls. Of all the responses, only two were women.
Where are Nigerian Ladies when it comes to intellectual development? Is it of any wonder then that we are hardly taken seriously on our own account? If we were to pursue matters of the intellect more aggressively like our western counter parts, our prestige and productivity would experience a higher tangent.
Men should encourage their female acquaintances to read and write more. Rather than shower the woman next door with frivolities, get a copy of a good News paper. The earlier literacy defunct is arrested amongst Nigerian women, the more we shall see the likes of the Okonjo’s, and the Akunyili’s.

Many Nigerian Women Don’t Know How to Read. Do you think this statement hold True or False?