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By Ayo Adesanya
This may not be the best of times for Nduka Obaigbena, chairman and publisher of ThisDay Newspapers. This is on account of the fact that staff of the newspaper recently staged a very public protest over the no-payment of their salaries by the ThisDay management led by Mr Obaigbena.
For a media house used to reporting news of such protests elsewhere it was an embarrassment. Some of the protesters say that they have not been paid salaries for seven months while management seemed unconcerned about their plight. But in a swift reaction, ThisDay management issued a statement in which it said that tough economic situation made payment of salaries difficult. It specifically blamed last year’s bombing of ThisDay offices in Abuja by terrorist group, Boko Haram as one of the major factors.
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Independent African publishers and authors face a unique set of challenges and limitations. On a continent where even school textbooks necessary for basic education do not ever reach their destination, and where the culture of reading is so woefully weak and undervalued that in some areas illiteracy is still a major obstacle. This restricts their market to only local bookshops and outlets, which leads to the limitation and even the strangling of their content's potential.
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