DON’T YOU FEEL INSULTED?

One of the worst insults I have ever heard in my life is that “to hide something valuable from a black man, just put it in a book”. You’ve probably heard it before too. And it’s true. Africans don’t read. IT’S INSULTING BUT IT IS TRUE. Some of us do but reading is not in our culture. It is not part of us. I once heard a colleague say that she’d rather buy makeup products than buy books. People would rather invest more on their outward appearance than take good care of what is inside.

From what I have learned, reading a book gives you express access to the author’s knowledge. For example, if an author spends 10 years researching on and writing his book, reading it means you have gained access to 10-years’ worth of knowledge for just a few bucks. So you see, reading the right stuff doesn’t take out of you, it adds to you. It gives you access to knowledge. It improves you. It opens you up to new things and shows you how much you don’t know and how much you still need to know.

Grab a book. Develop a reading culture. You’ll be better for it. It’ll make you a better person.