Jitney Books and the Grammar of the Street
A Poetics of FragmentsJitney books are not born in quiet libraries but on the roaring back seats of shared taxis. These cheap, pocket-sized pamphlets—stapled, smudged, and passed hand to hand—thrive in the informal economies of Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg. They carry no ISBNs or publisher logos, only raw stories: romance, thriller, moral fable. Their authors…