"The author relates the history of journalism in Nigeria since 1880 — At the time he wrote this article all the Nigerian dailies were still published only in English and their editors had great difficulty in finding technically experienced staff locally — He analyses the performance of the main dailies and concludes by describing the future prospects of the press as a whole in Nigeria." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1684, topic code 110.1)