THE PROBLEM WITH AFRICA 4
A poorly visited bookstore sits a sales-boy who relaxes on his sales seat playing games on his phone most of the days because people rarely visits his store to patronize books. He is only busy during school resumption days because of the compulsory text-books school demands students buy before returning to school. One day he saw an aged woman collapsed, she had had a cardiac arrest, and he was so fearful because few weeks back, his mother had suffered similar thing and before they could take her to the nearest hospital, she died. He thought this aged woman would die also, but one person he had recognized because he often visits the bookstore to read would show up immediately and conducted CPR on her. Later he asked him, ‘how did you know how to do that, when you aren’t a doctor?’, he said, ‘I had come to your store to pick a book that thought me how to perform CPR and know how to deal with some minor health challenges’ The boy started regretting living with books daily and not o...