A top General Interest Magazine @ 9 Ohaeto Street, D-Line Port Harcourt The Europeans gave us many things, but to me the best is Education; the ability to read and write. If you are reading th is, then you are a beneficiary of this gift; the lack of which had hitherto confined us as a people, to economic, spiritual and academic backwaters.

Incongruous with the intent of our benefactors, our people had lately formed the unwholesome habit of running away from books, except it is in a formal setting. Before now, reading was the major form of leisure and relaxation, and it wasn’t uncommon to see people from all classes grasp books as they went about their daily endeavors. That was when books like Things Fall Apart, The Concubine, Juju, A Time To Die, The Firm, The Great Controversy, No Orchids for Miss Blandish held sway in the consciousness of individuals, and literary titans like Chinua Achibe, Elechi Amadi, Delibe Onyeama, Wilbur Smith, John Grisham, Ellen G. White and James Hadley Chase are held in awe by their adoring readers. It was a time when No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase could firmly hold its own against any of the James Bond movies. Sadly, this has been reversed and the pearls hidden in books had largely remained undiscovered.

Many factors had been adduced as being responsible for this irresponsible behavior, prominent of these being the leaps witnessed in the electronic media. While television and social networks are upgrading to capture the interest of the public, the print media, especially books, had largely remained insipid and flavourless in the face of global renaissance, and that is why we have come.

TIMSY, a top class General Interest Magazine, is born out of the need to correct this anomaly. It is our earnest desire to re-inculcate the reading culture at all levels and among all classes of people by presenting the vicissitudes of life in a colourful and entertaining manner to impact positively on all aspect of human life; from the grassroots to the elite, locally and internationally.

As we do this, we hope to gradually close the space between us as a people, which at present is more than the distance between the stars.