Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Information Needs and Economic Opportunities in Non-Fiction Writing in Africa and particularly, Nigeria,Particularly in Academic Books

Hard copy books would be a good idea to reinforce the internet accessible version of a text. It could also aid those who are not preferential towards digital media. Knowing what students are missing from their curriculum is a great way to determine how to fill in any apparent holes in their education and expanding the scope of the textbooks would help add onto the tools the students need to succeed in any career they choose in the future. Every country has it own way to structure their academic system and hopefully Nigeria will find the system the works for it.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 3:17 PM Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

                                                                                      

                                                                   

                                                                  

                           Information Needs and Economic Opportunities in Non-Fiction Writing in Africa

                                                                         and particularly, Nigeria

                                                                       Particularly in Academic Books

                                                                                                       

                                                                   

                            Abiola Irele's The African Scholar and Other Essays published by Bookcraft, Ibadan, Nigeria

                                               

                                                                             Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

                                                                                         Compcros

                                                                   Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems

                                                     "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"    

                                                                                                            

What are the prospects for non-fiction publishing, particularly academic publishing,  in Africa, and specifically in Nigeria, where I am at the moment?

I would like to know from present and past students and staff of African and particularly Nigerian tertiary institutions what knowledge needs they have in their disciplines which they are having difficulty meeting or are finding impossible to meet.

Student texts relate to textbooks in various courses as well as specialized works in particular courses.

Staff texts would include and go beyond that to include texts that may go beyond their department's curriculum to address  other specialist areas.

Its my view that Internet access, no matter how readily accessible, is inadequate for a university education and for professional academic development.

Even if one has online access to the journal and book archives of global first class universities such as Harvard and Cambridge, would that invalidate the need for access to books outside that range?

The Nigerian book market is low in volume, the publishing industry weak, importing books is expensive, given the weak currency, and the fact that academic books are priced higher than other books even in the West, the centre of the globally dominant academic system.

What way forward?

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