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5 Ways to Get Kids to Read More
Look around you! Most of us are glued to our screens for work, entertainment, or.
The idea for the Northern Light Series came out of a desire to fill a gap in Nigerian publishing. Although there are millions of children in school and out of school in Nigeria, there is a shockingly low number of good-quality, visually appealing supplementary texts that enhance the learning that goes on in the classroom.
Told with humour, affection and a lot of research, these stories are set in the 18 states in northern Nigeria. The children at the centre of these stories are bold, funny and curious.
Lola Shoneyin is a writer, editor, publisher, bookseller, festival curator, and culture activist. Her works include three books of poems and six children’s picture books. Her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 and went on to win the PEN Oakland 2011 Josephine Miles Literary Award.
Shoneyin is the founder of Book Buzz Foundation, an NGO that is devoted to promoting literacy, creating reading spaces, and organising cultural, literary-focused events such as the Ake Arts & Book Festival and Kaduna Book & Arts Festival. She founded Ouida Books in 2016 with the goal of publishing and printing high-quality for adults and young readers in Nigeria. In 2021, she produced ‘Flowers for Warriors’, a documentary that takes a look into the lives of Nigerian parents who care for children with disabilities.
Lola Shoneyin currently works at a cultural space called OUIDA, which boasts of a bookstore, publishing house, co-working space, and audio studio.
She is a founding member of ACAIN and the president of the local national section of IBBY. Currently living in Lagos, Nigeria, Shoneyin is working on her second novel, her memoirs, and the rest of the books in the Northern Lights Series.
K.R. Onimole is a self-taught illustrator and animator with a background in Architecture. He also worked as an Art Director in Advertising. Some of the advertising campaigns have won both local and international awards.
While he was in University, KRO started a comic strip for Emporium, the information/news board for Architecture students, titled “Crasher”.
The Crasher comic strips were essentially exaggerated accounts of life as an Architecture student. After school the strips continued both online and in local Magazines. Some of which have been collected into a series of books.
KRO is currently a freelance/remote illustrator helping to tell stories in print media and Television.
Look around you! Most of us are glued to our screens for work, entertainment, or.
Developing Empathy I have a theory that the reason some Nigerian politicians are so ruthless.
I’ve always found the concept of favourite books interesting, possibly because my list constantly evolving..