What is the motive behind the teenage authors competition/awards?
We had three objectives in floating the competition. One is to encourage our youths to read, and we know that no one writes without reading. Another way to make sure that they read other authors is for them to think about writing themselves. And we also think that writing is a kind of job that makes you search language, to pick language as concise as it could be and to choose the right words all the time to express yourself in such a way that people will understand what you are saying. So we think that by making them to write, we would generally improve on their standard of education. Thirdly, we believe that if we get the young people to begin to write, we would have from that age, channelled them towards careers that are productive, creative and profitable rather than leave them to be thinking about hobbies and endeavours that are self-destructive and that can also destroy the society such as armed robbery, kidnapping, thuggery and all the other things which people would really not w
