"The papers from a 1983 symposium on 'Culture and the Book Industry in Nigeria', although not published until ten years later. Arranged in three parts, it contains 16 papers on various aspects of the state of the book in Nigeria in all its dimensions: writing and authorship, orality, literacy, readership, library development, academic publishing, and book distribution. It is preceded by an introduction, and an eloquent keynote address delivered at the symposium by Jibril Aminu, entitled "Books into Peoples." The collection also contains some papers on author-publisher relations, publishing in Nigerian languages, and production and distribution of scholarly journals." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 780)