{"id":71231,"date":"2025-01-29T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71231"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:34:13","slug":"i-was-told-books-dont-sell-here-i-knew-that-wasnt-true-the-english-teacher-shaking-up-nigerias-publishing-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/29\/i-was-told-books-dont-sell-here-i-knew-that-wasnt-true-the-english-teacher-shaking-up-nigerias-publishing-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was told books don\u2019t sell here. I knew that wasn\u2019t true\u2019: the English teacher shaking up Nigeria\u2019s publishing scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1y2AUg.img?w=768&amp;h=584&amp;m=6&amp;x=185&amp;y=150&amp;s=251&amp;d=251\" alt=\"Othuke Ominiabohs, author and founder of Masobe Books, one of Nigeria\u2019s fastest-growing independent publishers. Photograph: Courtesy of Othuke Ominiabohs\" width=\"525\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a hospital bed fearing his death was imminent, English teacher thought ruefully of his four unpublished novels.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/i-was-told-books-don-t-sell-here-i-knew-that-wasn-t-true-the-english-teacher-shaking-up-nigeria-s-publishing-scene\/ar-AA1y2Hfr?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=1cbad6cbdb0a48ffa3f41e8a1c0e3f44&amp;ei=84\">Read More\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In a hospital bed fearing his death was imminent, English teacher thought ruefully of his four unpublished novels.\u00a0\u00a0Read More\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Othuke-Ominiabohs.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71233,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71231\/revisions\/71233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}