Religious And Motivational Books Offer Little For National Growth

...she argues that religious and motivational books have overwhelmed the nation's reading imagination, the new trend she describes as dangerous since knowledge from such areas does not direct the growth that a nation like Nigeria needs. Nigerians, she contends, need to read creative works so as to be able to question the leaders as to how they are led...a country does not move forward through reading motivational books nor is it going to move forward through religious texts. The people might move spiritually but that's about it. We need books that allow us to question the very fabric of our existence and imagine a different world than what we have now. And, I don't think we might find that in motivational books or religious texts.