CHRONICILES OF MEDICAL HISTORY IN AFRICA: A Brief History of the Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine

Humans have a long interwoven history.Unlike other species that respond and react based on subconscious instincts and emotions, man is gifted with intelligence and can remember things both logically and illogically. He has the power of choice and the miracle of speech. Discoveries in art, science and religion are documented in journals and eventually in books. Like the brain, man has built huge libraries of information , and journals are the most primary and principal units. The nations that are the most advanced are the countries that have the most organized method of information storage and access. The rate at which such  records are accessed determines the rate at which social and infrastructural. development progresses in these countries. From the inital stage of case report to rudimentary science reporting of the very first journal Nature, to these days of sophisticated websites like that of the NEJM, the same motive has driven them all – the attainment of the most impactful means of passing on information that gives man power over the forces of nature,. Medicine remains the highest and purest occupational calling of man. The life of man must remain the domain where mere experimentation cannot be allowed, this is where journals become of immense importance.