The Leader of the South South Women Organisation, Vickie Djevwudu, and authour of the book, “Aviation in Nigeria: History, Issues and Prospects” has said that the process of writing books by women is challenging due to their effort in trying to combine family, work and others.
•Vickie Djevwudu
Djevwudu who authoured the book on aviation said she had no prior training or knowledge on the industry but joined a group, Aviation Round Table and read so much of aviation books.
This gave rise to the overall success of the book publication, she highlighted, explaining that as a media practitioner in the Public Relations field, she is a readymade tool. The book has 10 chapters and 215 pages produced to aid aviation students and stakeholders.
By Providence Obuh
THE book: “Aviation in Nigeria: History Issues and Prospects” was thought out of a simple and single question that I asked someone in the year 2000 in the aviation industry.
All I did was to say I want to read a book on the history of aviation in Nigeria and they told me such books would be difficult to get, and I was shocked to hear that I can’t find such a book in an industry like the aviation industry and that was how I summoned courage to write, even if I knew nothing about the aviation industry.
Sourcing for materials
I contacted a lot of professionals in the industry and that made me join “Aviation Round Table” a Non Governmental Organisation in the industry and I read a lot of books on aviation and that was where I realised that safety and security were major constraints besetting the aviation industry. I met a Doyen in the industry, Captain Dele Ore who gave me the boldness with which to stand and became a trustee member of the aviation round table, so that was the starting point and I became more involved in the industry.
To what extent has this book addressed the issues in the Aviation industry
It did and don’t forget that I couldn’t have done all the work alone, it involves a lot of research from various people, I had to meet a lot of expert and professionals, in fact what some of them did was to give me paper presentations they have made at one occasion or the other to work on, many of them I spoke with and some via interviews so from there I got a wealth of information of what I actually needed and of course my daily confrontation with happenings in the industry helped me to learn further and example is, we have one of the airports where once it is 6:00pm, they close for the day because there is no lighting facilities for planes to come in at 9:00pm, this is a problem but however, the industry will continue to grow and it is growing, only the leaders need a vision to move things forward.
Challenges of writing
You write and the editors will make corrections again and again until everybody has punctuated. Anybody I tell I am writing a book, they shout and tell me I must be a genius. All together, it is not easy combining work, family life and a whole lot of things with other business to writing a book, it was not easy but one thing about a vision or dream is that if you drive it to a point with love and zeal, at a point it turns around and the dream will now start driving you, that was what happened in my case and that was the driving force but if it was me driving the dream, it couldn’t have been possible. Don’t forget that you write and take it back to the professionals to look at and do addition and subtraction.
Who should buy the book
It is strictly for the aviation industry and aviation schools, travel agent, it good for upcoming people in the industry.
And the women association
We started even before former President Jonathan, came into power, as Women in South South but in 2004/2005 we changed the name to South South Women Organisation.
I was born and grew up in Lagos State and had seen the way the Western women have been into humanitarian business, they see the other woman who cannot measure up to them as their problem and they find a way to alleviate that problem which is why NGO’s became rampant in Lagos.
You will see these women come together in groups fighting for the cause of each other. Our objectives is to Educate, Empower and to give Humanitarian services
Posted by Ike Onwubuya
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