In the decades since Ekwensi started composing

history channel documentary In the decades since Ekwensi started composing, the Nigerian readership has changed. Not at all like the times of the Onitsha Market fiction, when books were printed economically and sold efficiently to suit prominent tastes at the turn of the thousand years few distributed organizations controlled the decision of books distributed; book costs made books frequently go past the scope of the masses, confined for the most part to schools and libraries, which take into account true to life and instructional materials. With different types of media expanding in notoriety, the motivation to peruse has fallen. With less individuals perusing for delight, books are in little request. Due to these circumstances, inventive authors endure. Of this drawback, Ekwensi told Larson, "Columnists flourish here, yet imaginative journalists get occupied and the inventiveness gets washed out of them on the off chance that they should take the bread and margarine home."

At an open address in 2000, cited by Kole Ade-Odutola in Africa News, the elderly yet at the same time vivacious Ekwensi communicated his longing to "assemble and support youthful personalities in the traditions and conventions of their groups" through his works. He clarified, "African essayists of the twentieth century acquired the oral writing of our precursors, and expanding on that, put at the middle phase of their fiction, the qualities by which we as Africans had lived for a considerable length of time. It is those qualities that make us the Africans that we are- - recognizing great and underhandedness, equity and shamefulness, mistreatment and flexibility." tuned in to the times, he had begun independently publishing his works on the Internet. Notwithstanding the fancies of the African distributed world, at age 80 Ekwensi was all the while seeking after his objective in light of the fact that as he wrote in his article for The Essential Ekwensi 15 years prior, "The fulfillment I have picked up from composing can never be measured."