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“African child reading a book – literacy and education in Africa”
“African child reading a book – literacy and education in Africa”
“Children reading in African library – reading culture initiative”

Why Every African Child Needs a Book | RINZNA

Original price was: 5 000 CFA.Current price is: 3 000 CFA.

Why Every African Child Needs a Book argues that reading—not aid—is the foundation of lasting development, strong citizenship, and national continuity. A serious, urgent call to build libraries or repeat poverty.

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Africa’s future will not be decided first by aid, elections, or infrastructure.
It will be decided by what its children read—and how early they begin.

In Why Every African Child Needs a Book, Arinze Achebe delivers a clear, uncompromising argument:
that Africa’s deepest inequality is not economic, but cognitive—and that the absence of books in childhood quietly reproduces poverty, weak institutions, and fragile leadership.

This book explores:

  • why schooling without libraries fails

  • why literacy beats aid in the long run

  • how books shape imagination, discipline, and moral reasoning

  • why unreading populations are easier to manipulate

  • how reading builds citizens, leaders, and national memory

  • why a reading childhood must be recognized as a human right

Written with moral seriousness and practical clarity, this book speaks to parents, teachers, policymakers, donors, and citizens who believe Africa must move beyond survival toward capacity, dignity, and continuity.

This is not a book about charity.
It is a book about duty.

If Africa builds libraries, it builds capacity.
If it does not, poverty will repeat.