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Time To Reclaim Nigeria To Be Unveiled Thursday December
15 Newsdiaryonline
Sun Dec 11,2011
Time to Reclaim Nigeria, a book of essays by journalist
and columnist, Chido Onumah, will be unveiled on
Thursday, December 15, 2011, at New Chelsea Hotel in Abuja. The
book is a collection of essays in the last ten years from
newspapers and online journals around the world by the author.
“Time To Reclaim Nigeria is an excellent collection of essays
which reveal the Nigerian reality, but which also point to the
fact that another reality of a society founded on the principles
of social justice, meaningful democracy, and equality before the
law is possible to construct,” notes Kwesi Pratt Jnr. Managing
editor of the Accra-based Insight newspaper in his introduction
to the book.
According to Harry Garuba, Head of Department and Associate
Professor in the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape
Town, South Africa, who wrote the foreword to the book, “Time to
Reclaim Nigeria provides us with a historical record of
wrongdoing spanning roughly the just-over-one decade of the
return to democracy in Nigeria and takes us through the hurt to
the home of hope”.
The author says the idea behind the book is to jolt Nigerians,
to help them remember the past and to remind them that the
country lies prostrate today because of their actions, and
sometimes inaction. The event is expected to draw members of
civil society, the human rights community, political activists,
students, academics, and labour leaders.
Onumah has worked in Nigeria, Ghana, Canada, USA, the Caribbean,
and India. He has been involved for more than a decade in media
training for professional journalists as well as promoting media
and information literacy in Africa. He is currently coordinator
of the African Centre for Media & Information
Literacy (AFRICMIL), Abuja, Nigeria. AFRICMIL is a
pan-African centre dedicated to a new vision of media and
information literacy as a key component in the education of
young people in Africa.
The book presentation which has Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as
chief presenter will be chaired by Engr. Buba Galadima, National
Secretary, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). Special guests
and co-presenters include, Gov. Tanko Al-Makura, governor of
Nasarawa State Owelle Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo State,
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Ogbeni Fauf Aregbesola, governor of Osun
State, Senator Chris Ngige, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, President,
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Comrade Owei
Lakemfa, General Secretary, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The
guest speaker is Dr. Hussaini Abdu, Country Director, ActionAid,
Nigeria, while the book will be reviewed by Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim,
Director, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD).
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