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Observational analysis highlights connections between book publishing and sustainable development goals, suggesting reforms needed.
Book publishing contributes to national development, Nigeria’s economy and the sustainabledevelopment of the society through provision of decent jobs and improving the standard ofeducation. In finding the nexus between book publishing and the UN’s SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDG), this paper critically evaluates role of the Nigerian book industryin attaining four of the goals to wit: Goal 1 (End Poverty in All its Forms Everywhere in theWorld), Goal 4 (Quality Education), Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), and Goal15 (Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manageforests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversityloss). It also highlights the role of the book publishing industry in attaining the AfricanAgenda 2063 on a regional level and ECOWAS Vision 2050 on a sub-regional level. It findsthat the Nigerian book industry has not been able to live up to expectation in attaining SDGsas a result of the legal, institutional and operation challenges confronting the publishingindustry, making it one of the least contributing sub-sectors to the Nigeria’s GDP based ondata by the National Bureau of Statistics. The study recommends inter alia that Nigeria needsa friendly National Book Policy and development oriented legal reforms in the bookpublishing industry in order to drive its contribution to the attainment of SDGs in thecountry.
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