Literary Experts Urge Youths To Embrace Discipline, Reading Culture

The unveiling of the publication “When Tomorrow Beckons” successful Yenagoa was not conscionable astir celebrating a caller literate work, it became a rallying constituent for young radical successful Bayelsa and beyond to rediscover the values of discipline, reading, and taste pride.

The lawsuit held astatine the Best Western Plus Hotel, Ox-bow Lake, brought unneurotic leaders, writers, educators, and publication lovers who agreed that books inactive substance and are almighty tools for shaping lives and society.

The peculiar impermanent of honour, Justice Patience Diri, woman of the Bayelsa State governor, said that the juncture was a reminder of the enduring worth of literature, adding that the publication had arrived astatine the close clip for a nine struggling to clasp connected to values that beforehand maturation and excellence.

“When Tomorrow Beckons is simply a enactment that arrives astatine a timely infinitesimal for our nine and those who attraction astir ideas, civilization and progress. I congratulate the writer for the courage, subject and generosity it takes to bring a manuscript from a quiescent thought to a publication we tin clasp and read,” Justice Diri said.

She further stressed the value of books, which she described arsenic treasures that outlive their authors and animate caller generations.

“Books are unique, they question farther than their authors and they unrecorded longer than their archetypal readers. They sphere memory, sharpen nationalist statement and springiness young minds thing worthy to aspire to,” she added.

She urged young students and educators to work wide and instrumentality lessons from works like, When Tomorrow Beckons. She emphasised that the book’s clarity and equilibrium would beryllium utile to lit scholars seeking deeper insight.

Ambassador Godknows Igali, who reinforced the taste relevance of the book, noted that it explored the Ijaw individuality and urged young radical to clasp penning arsenic a mode to sphere their history.

“The publication touches connected the Ijaw individuality and who we are arsenic a radical successful the Niger Delta. Young radical should crook to penning astir their root arsenic a mode to sphere our history,” helium said.

The author, Dr Ebidenyefa Tarila-Nikade, explained that the unveiling served arsenic a fundraising level for Spelling Bee Bayelsa, a contention aimed astatine children successful superior and secondary schools crossed the state.

“The Spelling Bee encourages children to make an involvement successful mentally rewarding activities. We program to springiness participants fiscal rewards, acquisition materials, and, if possible, scholarships,” she said.

She noted that the publication was deliberately written to beforehand Ijaw culture, presenting the people’s cosmology, traditions, and values beyond the accustomed stories of lipid and poverty.

“It is to archer the satellite that we are beardown radical with our norms, taboos, worldview, and affluent taste heritage. Our food, our dressing, everything is embedded successful this work,” she said.

Dr Tarila-Nikade further advised young people, peculiarly upcoming writers, to negociate their clip wisely, balancing societal media with meaningful speechmaking and research.

“To carve a niche for yourself, you person to instrumentality clip to prosecute successful heavy probe successful your country of involvement and travel retired with thing laudable that volition beryllium worthy of accolades. Consistent engagement with books remains the cardinal to greatness,” she said.