How Lagos pioneers built a vibrant Yoruba print culture in the 1920s – at the height of colonialism

Eko Akete was one of five Yoruba newspapers launched in the 1920s that soon became hugely popular. National Archives of Nigeria, Ibadan In Lagos in the 1910s and 1920s a new market of readers was emerging who wanted to express themselves in their own languages. Despite the dominance of colonial English print culture, entrepreneurs increasingly started using printing presses for mainstream Yoruba-language newspapers, books and pamphlets. A new book by cultural anthropologist Karin Barber…