Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within...

This is the first book to examine the production of Nigerian travel narratives about Nigeria in the century from colonization to independence. Rebecca Jones argues that we can read these texts both as the products of a local Nigerian print...