The Next Step!

Many people believe that only youth and adults can make a change because they are able to spot what they don't like and push for a difference. People see children as sheltered and blind to their society till they become teenagers and can "think for themselves". 20months with the members of the Abuja Children's Bookclub have dispelled those beliefs from our minds forever.

With members between the ages of 5 and 13, we have not only realized the surprisingly advanced thought process of the 21st century child, we have also seen the keenness with which they observe everything happening around them.  "This society is too decayed for them to observe and learn from"...some will say. But no, we found out otherwise.

As we read and reviewed books, the difference between the books and our society became too much for the children to reconcile. They wondered why books always had a solution to society norms but the real society does not. So we moved a step further to bring in NGOs and CSOs with different areas of focus in the society to educate these children on their interventions and give them hope, that while the society is greatly flawed, there were functional areas with solutions, taking one step at a time.

Did this pay off? Indeed!

Our children have grown from readers to observers, then budding writers and now we are ready to have the organisations put us through providing solutions.

And now, our birds are ready to fly.



We had aunty Noella who volunteered to give our members writing lessons. Through different forms of writing expressions, they put pen to paper, airing out points of decay in the society they would like to change.

How was it? So good we decided to publish it so more people get to see it.

This brings us to the launch of our first newsletter happening at Thought Pyramid Art Gallery, Wuse II Abuja on the 4th of January, 2019.

A newsletter holding not just the articulate thoughts of our future leaders, but also deep pockets of memories and what more? A new piece of literature that showcases the struggles, opportunities and circumstances of the average Abuja child, in the The Chronicles of William Greene 

Now that's a fine way to start a new year if I must say so myself.

See y'all at this epoch newsletter launch.