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Townsend published a Yoruba newspaper called 'Iwe-Irohin' in 1859. [a] [1] This is said to have started off the print media in Nigeria, as the newspaper was the bilingual paper in Nigeria. [4] The paper used 8 years before it demise. In 1862, he opened an orphanage [7] and several trade schools. [1]
Iwe Irohin: Yoruba, English Abeokuta: Nigeria: Founded on December 3, 1859. It was published bi-weekly, in Yoruba and English language and ran for about eight years, specifically from 1859 to 1867. 1875 Al-Ahram: Arabic: Cairo: Egypt: Still published 1889 Al-Maghrib: Arabic: Rabat: Morocco: First newspaper in the Maghreb 1891 Mashonaland Herald ...
The Alternative press in Nigeria or the press of the third kind is made up of writers who use militant approaches or viewpoints in news coverage. This usually encompasses guerrilla journalism, a term credited to some Nigerian news magazines for their radical and militant rhetoric and writings usually against the military regimes of the 1990s.
Newspapers published in Nigeria have a strong tradition of the principle of "publish and be damned" that dates back to the colonial era when founding fathers of the Nigerian press such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ernest Ikoli, Obafemi Awolowo and Lateef Jakande used their papers to fight for independence. [1]
1859 – Nigeria's first newspaper, missionary Henry Townsend's Iwe Irohin, was published. [ 5 ] 1881 – The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published.
The Ooni of Ile-Ife (Ọọ̀ni of Ilè-Ifẹ̀) is the traditional ruler of Ilé-Ifẹ̀.The Ooni dynasty existed before the reign of Oduduwa which historians have argued to have been between the 7th-9th centuries A.D.
Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ (lit. ' The Brave Hunter in the Forest of 400 Deities ') is the first novel written by the Yorùbá author D.O. Fágúnwà.It was published by the Church Missionary Society Bookshop, Lagos in 1938 and is one of the first novels written in Yorùbá [1] It tells the story of the adventures of the hunter Akara-Ogun.
IWE may refer to: International Worship in English , a Christian ministry of American missionary to South Korea, Bill Majors International Wrestling Enterprise , a Japanese professional wrestling promotion active from 1966 to 1981