نظرية التجديدية في أدب الرحلة: "إفادة الأنام بأخبار ساي ونيامي نموذجا

Abstract

Travelogue is reagarded as a special literary field used in accounting for occurences which a writer comes across in his adventures. It is also considered as a scholarly treasury through which a writer's ideas, styles and literaly appreciation are exposed. Wazeer Junayd Muhammad Uthman is known as the first Nigerian to dabble into travelogue in the modern time. Several Nigeria writters have also written travelogues that contain academic facts and different historical happenings. This paper therefore examines the travelogue written by Mashood Mahmud Jimba during his visit to Sayi and Niyami of the Republic of Niger. The Researcher tries to highlight the new styles employed by the writer. The methodologies used in the study are historical and disciptive. A paper authored by Dr Khalil Usman Gbodofu in the history of travelogue in Nigeria served as literature review. The paper was published in Islamic University Multidiciplinary Journal, Uganda 2020.