At the Crossroads – Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English: African Articulations

Introduction African travel writing: genres of writing and forms of travel Travel writing, colonial print culture, and the Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s Isaac Délàno's The Soul of Nigeria, at the crossroads of "civilisation" Journeys of experience and transformation: the quest narrative in Yoruba and English fiction Surveying and serving Nigeria in national travel writing after the civil war "Nigeria is my playground": travel for travel's sake in twenty-first century Nigeria From the "dark return" to the "open" nation: diaspora travel narratives of return to Nigeria Epilogue: Southwest Nigerian travel writing and literary culture at the crossroads Bibliography