Onitsha Market Literature

Onitsha Market Literature refers to a number of pamphlets, books and other publications sold at the Onitsha Market in Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s. Much of it was written in pidgin and creole varieties of English. This form of literature is now interesting to researchers as a secondary source of information about social conditions of the time; general readers can appreciate it for its creative use of colorful, non-standard English as well as its often racy plotlines.

Further reading

• http://onitsha.diglib.ku.edu/index.htm
  • http://onitsha.diglib.ku.edu/bibliography.htm
• http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/onitsha.html
• http://www.nigeriafirst.org/printer_1396.shtml

• "Life Turns Man Up and Down",(a collection of selected market pamphlets) by Kurt Thometz