For Andrew Alikwe, publishing a youth magazine has been his dream right from time. But faced with many challenges before realizing his dream recently, the young author, songwriter, movie maker and now publisher explained his foray into publishing.

World changers magazine
I was inspired those thing that interest the youth in Nigeria. I saw that there was a vacuum, that many youths do not really know their purpose in life, they do not care to know what to do, for example, many people just want to get into university actually knowing want they truly want to study and I realized that most youths do not read in the Nigeria.

I believe without information one cannot get transformed; it takes information for a country to get to its destination. America is where it is today because it has a reading culture. You find out that they read more and work less but here we work more but read less.

Challenges
I faced many challenges, chief of which was finance. People have ideas to set up magazines with different concepts but her unable due to lack of finance. I contacted a bank to finance my magazine but they asked me for a collateral which they know I do not have. But at the end of the day I met somebody who believe in my dream. Without any question or interviews I showed her a copy of the magazine and she just asked me how much it would costs. That was it. It was very though for me and I cannot truly describe how challenging it was for me. If we must grow in this country as a nation, we must have resources based where we can finance people with ideas.

Circulation
Taking the work abroad is a function of quality. You just do not send anything there. Right now, we are not looking at going beyond West African region. Even in South Africa, everything is based on standard and policy which the government has put in place. For now, the focus is how the publication can circulate Ghana, Zambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Togo, and Benin Republic. We are also considering translating into French four our-speaking brothers.

Me and my environment
I would say it has influenced me positively. I thank God I was born to a poor home. It is indeed privileged though many people see as disadvantage but I see differently. A wise man says poverty is a way of making you realize your potentials. When I saw the kind of environment from which I emerged, I saw my parents, the people, their thinking, and confession on poverty. I was in that the line of thought before, until I meet a friend who is also my mentor. He changed my mentality in 2004 by introducing me to reading.

Upon doing that, I discovered that in glass house we are not better than those in wooden houses. My word view and my thinking began to change, I then decided to take a stand. As other realized I was moving, they joined me because they saw the change in me. In addition, I said, if I can change my environment, I can change my society, and if I can change the society, then I can change my world.
I have obtained my WASC after which I went into IT information technology, I also studied computer editing and cinematography in an international school called multi media training institute in Surulere, Lagos. Nevertheless, I want to acquire more knowledge in the area of journalism. I love anything that have to do with the media, so I hope to learn more. However I realized that in this part of the world many students study wrong courses and they are worse of today.

Future plans
In the next five years, I see World Changer Magazine becoming not just one of the world leading magazines but publication that will change people and change based magazine.

I am into other things. For example movie making is one of my greatest dreams. I had the inspiration to start writing movie scripts since 2004 but I discovered that writing style and even my story line were differently from that of Nollywood and for me it is all about impacting my world and not just my locality. I want to do a movie that whites will marvel and just any movie. I also planned to come up with a basket ball reality TV show in Nigeria, a sound educational reality show just like the spelling bee completion in America where kids do wonders with spelling. The Americans watch kids grow and become world changers in future.