The Nigerian Press: Current state, travails and prospects

Abstract

Introduction: A historical overviewThe Nigerian press is not the oldest on the continent, or even in the West African sub-region. Nigeria’s earliest newspapers emerged after those of Sierra Leone (1801), Ghana (1822) and Liberia (1826), and were started by Anglican missionaries. By opening schools which provided a Western-oriented education, the missionaries also trained their first readers, for, unlike the North, influenced by Islam and the Arabs – or at least the Hausa-Fulani elites – the ...

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