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Close up of books, tilt up2. Various of man displaying school books at street stall  3. Pedestrians on busy street 4. Wide of traffic congestion 5. Various of city's poor housing and poor drainage systemLagos,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLagos, 22 December, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close up of books, tilt up\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of man displaying school books at street stall  \u003cbr/\u003e3. Pedestrians on busy street \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of traffic congestion \u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of city's poor housing and poor drainage system\u003cbr/\u003eLagos, 20 November, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various close up of books, pan of books at literary fair\u003cbr/\u003eLagos, 23 November, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Teju Cole, Nigerian-American writer :\u003cbr/\u003e\"This concept that there is new writing out of Nigeria, the way it has played out thus far as been that, those of us who are leaving in the U.S or U.K in the case of Chika Unigwe in Belgium, seem to have had a bit more of access to those global publishing networks than people who are base at home.  But I think that starting to change very quickly also.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of book display at a book store, UPSOUND : music played by a local band\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of artist Helen Parker-Jayne playing music at a book store\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of books\u003cbr/\u003eLagos, 22 November, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e11. Setup of Nigeria-based author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: Nigerian-based author\u003cbr/\u003e\"There's no place in my town where my parents can by a copy of my book and that is where my book is set, Umuahia and Aba.  You can't find a single copy of my book in those part of Nigeria, so we have those issues as well. How am I expected to become a successful author in my country when there are just four cities where my publishers are able to distribute my books?\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of man buying book by the roadside\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Bayo Adesola: Estate surveyor :\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's not easy to go to book shop and find the books there because they don't stock old books.  But by the roadside you find good books.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Woman asking roadside book seller for a particular book\u003cbr/\u003eLagos, 24 November, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of books displayed at a book fair \u003cbr/\u003eLagos, 22 November, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Nigerian-based author :\u003cbr/\u003e\"Anybody who manages to achieve anything in the Nigeria environment is not necessarily the best at what they do, best in terms of ability or talent, or know how, or whatever, skill.  It's usually the people who are able to prevail against circumstances that normally will have nothing to do with their field of endeavour. I am a writer, my greatest challenge is not creativity or writers-block or any of the things, my greatest challenge is electricity.\" \u003cbr/\u003eLagos, 22 December, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e18. Central business district, pan to statue of Halbert Macaulay, considered by many Nigerians as the founder of Nigerian nationalism\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up of statue\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of traffic \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Henry Promise, Voxpop :\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe a writer is a writer no matter is location or is orientation in life. I believe strongly that a writer write what he feels and cuts across everything, every facet of society.  So if a writer is in America and knows about what happens here in Nigeria and writes very well about it, I'm going to read and I'm going to have my own take on it. So no matter where the writer is, what he writes count.I strongly believe that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of street scene\u003cbr/\u003eA new generation of writers in Nigeria are struggling to make their voices heard in print - not just abroad but also at home in their own country.\u003cbr/\u003eBook distribution is a hit and miss affair in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city.\u003cbr/\u003eThe chaos of the city is writ large in the nation's literature.  One narrator notes \"how unpretty\" its sprawl looks, with \"its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAnother author describes the madness of the commute in the city, how six roads meet and \"there is no traffic light.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThese vivid descriptions come from Nigeria's new generation of authors, whose novels and short stories are gaining acclaim once reserved for post-colonial literary heavyweights such as Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe.\u003cbr/\u003eThese writers earned the West African nation a reputation as a hub of classic African writing.\u003cbr/\u003eBut many of the new generation of authors must live abroad to earn a living from their craft.\u003cbr/\u003eThe international acclaim helps them secure a reputation in Nigeria allowing their books to be published here too.\u003cbr/\u003eNigerian-American writer Teju Cole recently travelled back to Lagos for research after having his New York-based novel \"Open City\" listed among The New York Times' 100 most influential books for 2011.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says Nigerian writers living outside the country tend to get greater recognition.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This concept that there is new writing out of Nigeria, the way it has played out thus far as been that, those of us who are leaving in the U.S or U.K in the case of Chika Unigwe in Belgium, seem to have had a bit more of access to those global publishing networks than people who are base at home.  But I think that starting to change very quickly also.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAfter independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria became one of the continent's top suppliers of literary talent. \u003cbr/\u003eWole Soyinka was honoured with a Nobel Prize for Literature for his plays, essays and books.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile Chinua Achebe received acclaim for his novel \"Things Fall Apart\" and other writings examining the failures of post-independence politics.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new generation of Nigerian writers, while examining politics, appear more focused on the feeling of daily life in Nigeria, a multi-ethnic and religious nation of more than 160 (m) million people, where electricity remains scarce and many live below the poverty line.\u003cbr/\u003eThose new voices include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose book \"Half of a Yellow Sun\" focused on the breakaway Republic of Biafra and nation's 1960s civil war that saw one million people killed. \u003cbr/\u003eLike Adichie, most of these writers live in the West for much of the year, returning home on research and observation trips.\u003cbr/\u003eTheir publishers and most of their readers are in the West, industry experts say. \u003cbr/\u003eThere, African writing has gained major publishers' interest in the last decade, while fiction publishing at home struggles to find its feet.\u003cbr/\u003eNigerian-based authors like Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, whose satirical novel on Nigerian email scammers titled \"I Do Not Come to You By Chance\" won international attention, first got a foreign literary agent before getting published. \u003cbr/\u003eHer novel has been translated into German, a language she doesn't speak.\u003cbr/\u003eIt sells much better in Germany than it sells in Nigeria.\u003cbr/\u003eShe says her book is extremely hard to track down in Nigeria.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There's no place in my town where my parents can by a copy of my book and that is where my book is set, Umuahia and Aba.  You can't find a single copy of my book in those part of Nigeria, so we have those issues as well. How am I expected to become a successful author in my country when there are just four cities where my publishers are able to distribute my books?\"\u003cbr/\u003eFor many years, self-publishing was the only hope for Nigerian writers at home to realise their dreams, in a country where a long military era had imposed a publishing lull. \u003cbr/\u003eMore than a decade since Nigeria returned to civilian rule, only a handful of local publishers will brave the difficult environment to champion fiction writing.\u003cbr/\u003ePoor distribution networks and high printing and shipping costs are only some of the setbacks bogging down the local publishing industry, forcing most book lovers to search for novels in the thinly stocked second-hand bookstands that edge busy markets. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen booksellers do sell new books, they tend to prefer religious, educational and self-help books to fiction titles considered slow-selling.\u003cbr/\u003eEstate surveyor Bayo Adesola buys his books at roadside stalls.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says the stalls usually have a better selection.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's not easy to go to book shop and find the books there because they don't stock old books.  But by the roadside you find good books.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNigerian-based author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani says she feels she has to battle against the odds to be a writer in Nigeria.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Anybody who manages to achieve anything in the Nigeria environment is not necessarily the best at what they do, best in terms of ability or talent, or know how, or whatever, skill.  It's usually the people who are able to prevail against circumstances that normally will have nothing to do with their field of endeavour. I am a writer, my greatest challenge is not creativity or writers-block or any of the things, my greatest challenge is electricity.\" \u003cbr/\u003eLagos resident Henry Promise says location makes no difference to whether someone can succeed as a writer or not.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe a writer is a writer no matter is location or is orientation in life. I believe strongly that a writer write what he feels and cuts across everything, every facet of society.  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