NBRP to partner CORA on 2023 ‘Book Trek’ activities

The Network of Book Clubs and Reading Culture Promoters in Nigeria (NBRP) is set to collaborate with the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) in a series of reading promotion activities and engagements planned by CORA throughout the course of 2023.

Known as the CORABookTrek, these activities aim to engage audiences with a selection of books that provide historical and contemporary insights into the African condition.

Each session will feature readings, reviews and discussions – as part of CORA’s extension services towards promoting the culture of reading in Nigeria; deepening literary appreciation, and, in particular, engendering a more robust audience engagement with a selected published text per time, as well as spreading the campaign for LITERACY towards boosting citizens’ Education, Enlightenment and Empowerment – the three core-programme mission of the CORA.

Ultimately, the _BookTrek_ is set to achieve CORA’s fundamental mission of enhancing the human capacity profile of our nation and the African continent as a whole.

Says NBRP President, Richard Mammah about the collaboration:

‘We at the Network of Book Clubs and Reading Culture Promoters in Nigeria regard CORA’s vision, and the activities it has so far initiated to actualize that vision, as a step in the right direction, and a journey toward a noble destination – and we are proud to be part of that journey. This is.what had informed the MoU signed between both organisations in November 2022 and we are glad of the progress made since then.’

On his part CORA’s Programme Chair, Mr Jahman Anikulapo remarked:

“CORA regards the birth of the Network of Book Clubs and Reading Culture Promoters, NBRP, as the most progressive idea to come out of the Nigeria and Africa’s Literary community in past decades, we are privileged and honoured to be a partner of the visions and mission of the organisation geared to deepening citizens’ engagement with the literary texts – written, oral or in images.’

CORA was also one of several book ecosystem players that participated very actively in the NBRP-convened #LagosBookWalk mega advocacy event to promote the reading culture that took place on April 27 and which saw the stakeholders presenting a 10-point plan for improving the reading culture in the state to officials of the Lagos State Government.