Title: Challenges of Young Entrepreneurial Writers: Nigeria’s Case
Authors: Robert, Odey Simon
Volume: 1
Issue: 10
Pages: 45-51
Publication Date: 2017/12/28//
Abstract:
Entrepreneurial writers are independent writers, who have writing career for self-employment. Many writers of developed nations are entrepreneurial writers because they are mostly independent and have all the resources and enabling environment to their advantage, unlike their contemporaries of the developing nations. Writers of developing nations are faced with numerous challenges. They largely lack support and sponsorship from government, corporate institutions, NGOs and the well-to-do individuals. No enabling environment, finance (funding), resources, logistics, free publishers, no employment or contract, and there are a few or no mentors for them. Also, since only a few people read in these parts of the world, the writers seldom have readers cum deserving patronage. The writing artists are thus not just constrained, incapacitated and discouraged; they are also rarely recognized as (emerging) stars, unlike artistes and thespians. They are grossly disregarded, neglected and left to their fate. The dire need for change is why this piece of work rose to arouse the attention and consciousness of all and sundry toward the ageing ugly situation that writers like those of Nigeria find themselves in. This paper calls for change of attitudes toward this set of entrepreneurs by well-to-do Nigerians, government, NGOs, publishers, academia, producers, the bourgeoisie, elites and donor international institutions, and request their endless support for young writers, who merely lack the resources and funding but not the talent and prowess. Following its nature and preoccupation, based on qualitative approach, the study draws basically from secondary sources and adopts the text-content analysis for the presentation of the data. Intuition and participant and non-participant observation are the primary data sources involved.