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September 24, 2008

Why Revival of Reading Culture is Urgent

by Funmi Ogundare and Uchechukwu Nnaike, This Day, Nigeria - Literacy is a human right and a tool for personal empowerment. It is an essential ingredient for eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, curbing population growth, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development, peace and democracy.

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Literacy is imperative to civic participation and democratic governance. Beyond that, as this article points it, lies an even more basic component of insuring citizens' physical and mental independence and right to safety: the ability to read and inform oneself on disease prevention and treatment. When literacy is addressed as a health care issue, its importance takes on a new dimension.

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