Don canvasses e-books to revive reading culture among youths

First female Professor of Computer Science in Africa and lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Professor Adenike Osofisan has called on publishers in the country to make provision for electronic books in Nigerian languages with a view to encouraging the youth to speak their mother tongues and also revive reading culture among them. The university […]

First female Professor of Computer Science in Africa and lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Professor Adenike Osofisan has called on publishers in the country to make provision for electronic books in Nigerian languages with a view to encouraging the youth to speak their mother tongues and also revive reading culture among them.
The university don made the call in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, in her keynote address titled ‘IT and You’ on the occasion of the public presentation of Evans Electronic Books.
While commending Evans Brothers Nigeria Publishers Limited for its initiatives in devicing e-books on various educational curricula, Professor Osofisan raised an alarm at the rate at which some languages in Nigeria are going into extinction.
She particularly lamented that Yoruba language stands the risk of being a forgotten language if the ugly trend at which indigenous languages are being relegated to the background in primary and secondary curricula in the country, is not checked.