READING MORE IS A SUSTAINER OF LIFE

READING MORE SUSTAINS LIFE

De: TARCISIO F. B. GICHUNGE JOEL KIREMA M'RINGERA

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

INTRODUCTION
By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera

Publishing of documents and books is a very expensive industry anywhere in the world. Especially in Kenya, publishing is an expensive industry. It is expensive because Kenyans have never acquired high standard publishing machines and equipment in the country. Therefore, Kenyans read imported books though the contents of those books are sometimes local materials.


Kenyans trust imported National Examinations, they trust imported election materials and they trust imported books printed in foreign countries. Kenyans and not only Kenyans should learn to trust their own!
Currently, parents/farmers buy foreign books for their children. Everybody buys foreign books for their children. Farmers use a lot of energy to till their farms because tractors are very rare. If the Government allowed importation of the two related items into the country, people would buy cheap books for their children and those parents/farmers would concentrate to produce more food cheaply to feed the nation. People would stop importing books for their children while they concentrate their efforts to produce more food for the country. Production of food and books are related subjects in this country because producers of paper and food are parents who are also farmers.
Today, all Kenyans complain about the cost of textbooks for their children in Schools. Most of those books are imports into the country. The books could be availed locally if the Government encouraged Publishing Industry in Kenya. As of now, the Government has never imagined how much foreign exchange goes into books’ imports in the country. Instead, leaders view books’ importers and manufacturers as exploiters while they do nothing to save the situation.

If the Government had wise people, they would advise that local publishing be encouraged to save some foreign exchange for use on other imports that may not be availed locally. We know that Kenya has deposits of iron ore, but no one has interest in the matter. Future generations will laugh at the present generation that was unable to discover iron ore just in their backyards.

Publishing Industry is a challenge to the upcoming entrepreneurs and readers in Kenya. Just read this edition to get insight on what awaits young people in the Publishing Industry in their future. This book is minor in its contents, but it carries a very heavy, weighty, and an important message to the future entrepreneurs of Kenya and East Africans in general. Creating a reading culture or reading more of the locally published books, is another method of encouraging readers to read local books instead of ordering foreign books that incur extra costs to bring books into the country.

Reading an enticing story energizes your senses and makes you younger by a fraction of a year or few days in your life. When you try to read the same story repeatedly, your senses bring you energy to remember the story and that way your life becomes revitalized to continue alertness that brings your life back to some years past. Just try that trick and try it repeatedly and you will experience the result and good outcome.

Read more and live longer to encourage others to create a reading culture in your village. Old people are assets in their villages because they provide wisdom and good judgments into the issues that concern the communities. Communities thrive through wisdom and sound judgments of its leaders who rely on advice from old persons. On the other hand, young people who live with grandparents grow up to be intellectuals in the communities. If you did not know that, please try to find out through observations or inquiries.