Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Orthography; Introduction; 1 African travel writing: genres of writing and forms of travel; 2 Travel writing, colonial print culture, and the Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s; 3 Isaac Délànọ̀'s The Soul of Nigeria, at the crossroads of 'civilisation'; 4 Journeys of experience and transformation: the quest narrative in Yoruba and English fiction; 5 Surveying and serving Nigeria in national travel writing after the civil war; 6 'Nigeria is my playground': travel for travel's sake in twentyfirst century Nigeria
7 From the 'dark return' to the 'open' nation: diaspora travel narratives of return to NigeriaEpilogue: Southwest Nigerian travel writing and literary culture at the crossroads; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing