The University of Ibadan Bookshop
It was a wonderful experience.
-- A Prism for Exploring the Nigerian Scholarly and General Publishing Landscape
Travelling to Osogbo on the 22nd of July this year, 2025, I took a train to Ibadan from Lagos.
Arriving in Ibadan about 10 am, I decided to explore the University of Ibadan bookshop before continuing by road to Osogbo, having visited the bookshop last in 2018.
My visit to the bookshop on the 22nd of July 2025 restructured
my understanding of certain fundamental issues, leading to the following conclusions:
1. Nigerian scholarly and general non-fiction publishing is gathering serious momentum.
2. University of Ibadan academics have developed a powerful culture of celebrating their colleagues through rich collaborative volumes published in Nigeria.
3. The National Theatre has made itself into a scholarly powerhouse through comprehensive collaborative volumes on theatre practioners, published in Nigeria.
4. The study of such an African knowledge system as Ifa is richly engaged with by writers in Nigeria, publishing in Nigeria.
5. Nigerian printing systems are of high quality, at times reaching competitive international standards.
6.The Ibadan bookshop network, from the University of Ibadan bookshop to Sunshine Booksellers, and more, is a premier book acquisition destination, particularly for serious non-fiction published in Nigeria, and sold at various levels of ease of access to people operating within the purchasing power of the Nigerian currency, and of negligible cost to those operating within stronger currencies.
It was a wonderful experience.
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