printing paper

Evidence

"In the colonial period, printing paper was imported from England. This tradition continued in the post-colonial era. The primary supplier of the printing machinery in northern Nigeria by 1974 was R. T. Briscoe, who, together with Wiggins Teape, also nearly monopolized the supply of paper."

Remarks

The supply of printing paper was a near-monopoly of British firms like Wiggins Teape until the late 1970s, when local Hausa merchants began importing directly from England to supply Yoruba and Hausa printers in Kano (p. 347). Paper was purchased in reams by publishers to bring to the printers along with their press plates (p. 351).