Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020 'Honorable
Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A
path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African
travel writing. Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have
been writing about their travels within Nigeria using a variety of
media and forms, from serialised newspaper travelogues to personal
diaries, autobiographies and online narratives.These works offer
important insights into how Nigerians have represented Nigeria to
itself and to the world. This is the first book to examine the
production of Nigerian travel narratives about Nigeria in the
century from colonisation to independence. Rebecca Jones argues
that we can read these texts both as the products of a local
Nigerian print culture, and through their articulations with global
travel writing traditions. Focusing on travel writing published
from 1914 to 2014 in the Yoruba-speaking region of southwestern
Nigeria, home to a well-established and prolific writing and print
culture in both Yoruba and English, this cultural history of
Nigerian travel comprisesclose readings of these works, and argues
that the production of travel writing in the region can be read not
simply as a foreign import, but as a cluster of genres with a
cohesive local history. Writers discussed include Samuel Ajayi
Crowther, I.B. Thomas, E.A. Akintan, Isaac Delano, D.O. Fagunwa,
Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, Babatunde Shadeko, Damilola Ajenifuja,
Chibuzor Mirian Azubuike, Pelu Awofeso, Lape Soetan, Teju Cole,
Adewale Maja-Pearce, Noo Saro-Wiwa, and the Invisible Borders
collective. Nigeria: Premium Times Books
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