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 'The Rainbow Book Club stands to contribute immensely to Nigeria's intellectual development and burgeoning democracy'Professor Chinua Achebe, Honourary Member of the Rainbow Book Club  'Situated within the heart of a much under-stated civil conflict, with its attendant insecurity from which writers were not spared, Rainbow Book Club became a matchless advocate for creativity and culture, inspiring youths, revealing an alternative world to which books and literacy proved the open door' Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Honourary Member of the Rainbow Book Club  'I am an admirer of what the Rainbow Book Club is doing' Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Commonwealth Secretary General, Honourary member of the Rainbow Book Club Garden City Literary FestivalThe Garden City Literary Festival, which kicked off in 2008, is the brain child of Governor Amaechi of Rivers State and is sponsored by the Rivers State Government.... Read moreGet Nigeria Reading AgainThe event has been ongoing since 2005. It has involved over 1000 students from about 100 schools in Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and Lagos States as well as Abuja. In 2008... Read moreLeaders ReadIn 2008 the Rainbow Book Club pioneered the initiative of getting role models to read to and interact with the children. Through this project the book clubs hopes to inspire... Read moreAuthor ReadingsThrough the book-of-the-month, the Rainbow Book Clubs brings good books to the attention of the public. Each month RBC members meet to read and review the Book-of-the-month. The RBC also... Read more
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On March 21st, the Rainbow Book Club joined the rest of the literary world to celebrate World Poetry day. The event held at the poolside of Le Meridien, Ogeyi Place, Port Harcourt and had “Mr Ogbonge Poliktisan” an anthology of poems in pidgin english by Chief Anthony Abagha, as its Book of the Month.
