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  • Abimbola Adelakun
    Abimbola Adelakun
    Abimbola Adunni Adelakun is a Nigerian writer, born in Ibadan, SouthWest Nigeria. She was educated at the University of Ibadan, where she graduated with both a Bachelor's degree and a Master of Arts Degree in Communication and Language Arts....

    , novelist.
  • Chris Abani
    Chris Abani
    Christopher Abani is a Nigerian author. Abani's first novel, Masters of the Board, was about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria...

     (1966– ), novelist, playwright and poet.
  • Chinua Achebe
    Chinua Achebe
    Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

     (1930– ), novelist, poet and critic.
  • Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
    Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
    Prof. Catherine Obianuju Acholonu is a Nigerian writer, researcher and former lecturer on African Cultural and Gender Studies...

     (1951– ), academic.
  • Toyin Adewale-Gabriel
    Toyin Adewale-Gabriel
    Toyin Adewale-Gabriel was. She received he MA Lit from Obafemi Awolowo University She has also worked as literary critic in different newspapers of her country, among them The Guardian, Post Express and The Daily Times. She was cofounder and coordinator for several years of the Association of...

     (1969– ), poet.
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:...

     (1977– ), novelist.
  • Tolu Ajayi
    Tolu Ajayi
    Toluwalogo Ajayi is a Nigerian poet and writer of fiction. Born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Ajayi was educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom; in the latter country, he qualified in 1970 as a physician at the University of Liverpool Medical School...

     (1946– ), poet and writer of fiction.
  • Uwem Akpan
    Uwem Akpan
    Uwem Akpan, born May 19, 1971, is a Nigerian Jesuit priest and writer. He is the author of Say You’re One of Them , a collection of five stories published by Little, Brown & Company...

     (1971– ), Jesuit priest and writer.
  • Akilu Aliyu
    Akilu Aliyu
    Aliyu Akilu was a Nigerian poet and writer and one of the greatest Hausa poets of the twentieth century. Aliyu was born in Jega, in present day Kebbi State. For his early education, he was trained in a Koranic school in Kano, under the Tijaniyya brotherhood, and later went to Borno to study under...

     (1918–1998), poet.
  • T.M. Aluko (1918–2010), novelist and autobiographer.
  • Elechi Amadi
    Elechi Amadi
    Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian author who has written five African novels - The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave , Isiburu and Estrangement...

     (1934– ), novelist.
  • Ifi Amadiume
    Ifi Amadiume
    Dr. Ifi Amadiume is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist. She joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, U.S. in 1993.-Biography:...

     (1947– ), poet, anthropologist and essayist.
  • Sefi Atta
    Sefi Atta
    Sefi Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1964, to a family of five children. Her father Abdul-Aziz Atta was the Secretary to Federal Government and Head of the Civil Service until his death in 1972, and she was raised by her mother Iyabo Atta....

     (1964– ), novelist, short story writer and playwright.
  • Nnorom Azuonye
    Nnorom Azuonye
    Nnorom Azuonye is a Nigerian theater director, playwright, and poet. He wrote Letter To God & Other Poems in 2003...

     (1967– ), theater director, playwright and poet.

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  • Biyi Bandele
    Biyi Bandele
    Biyi Bandele-Thomas is a Nigerian novelist and playwright generally known as Biyi Bandele. Bandele is one of the most versatile and prolific of the U.K.-based Nigerian writers, having turned his hand to theater, journalism, television, film, and radio, as well as the fiction with which he made his...

     (1967– )
  • A. Igoni Barrett
    A. Igoni Barrett
    Adrian Igonibo Barrett is a Nigerian writer. He was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria to a Nigerian mother and the Jamaican novelist and poet, Lindsay Barrett.Barrett was a winner of the BBC World Service short story competition for 2005...

     (1979– )
  • Olumbe Bassir
    Olumbe Bassir
    Olumbe Bassir was a Sierra Leonean scientist and academic who settled in Nigeria.-Earliy life and education:Born in Senegal to Sierra Leonean parents in 1919, Abdul Rahman Bassir was raised in the older part of the municipality of Freetown, Fourah Bay, by his parents Abdul and Isatu Bassir...

  • Philip Begho
    Philip Begho
    Philip Begho, author of over seventy books, is an award-winning Nigerian writer . Born in Warri, Delta State on January 11, 1956 of an Itsekiri father and a mother of mixed race, he received his secondary school education at King’s College, Lagos and obtained an LLB. from the University of Lagos...

  • Tubal Rabbi Cain
    Tubal Rabbi Cain
    Tubal Rabbi Cain is a Nigerian writer. He was born at Etinan, in Akwa Ibom state, within the south eastern coastal areas of Nigeria in the year 1964...

     (1964–)
  • Chin Ce
    Chin Ce
    Chin Ce is a Nigerian writer.He was educated at the University of Calabar. He write a fictional trilogy, "Children of Koloko", "Gamji College" and "The Visitor"....

     (1966– )
  • Chinweizu
    Chinweizu
    Chinweizu is a Nigerian critic, poet, and journalist. Though he has identified himself and is known simply as Chinweizu, he was born Chinweizu Ibekwe at Eluoma in Isuikwuato in the part of Eastern Region that is known today as Abia State, and was educated at Government Secondary School, Afikpo. He...

     (1943– )
  • John Pepper Clark
    John Pepper Clark
    John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo is a Nigerian poet and playwright who publishes under the name J.P. Clark.-Life:Born to Ijaw parents, Clark received his early education at the Native Administration School and the prestigious Government College in Ughelli, and his BA degree in English at the...

     (1935– )
  • Samuel Ajayi Crowther
    Samuel Ajayi Crowther
    Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Born in Osogun , Rev. Dr...

     (1809–1891)
  • Jude Dibia
    Jude Dibia
    Jude Dibia is a Nigerian-born novelist. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He has a B.A in Modern European Languages .Jude Dibia is the author of three well received novels; Walking with Shadows , Unbridled , and Blackbird . Jude’s novels have been described as daring and controversial by readers and...

     (1975– )
  • Philip Effiong
    Philip Effiong
    Philip Efiong was the first Vice President and the second and last President of the now defunct Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970.-Early life:...

  • Michael Echeruo
    Michael Echeruo
    Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo is a Nigerian academic, professor and literary critic from Okigwe, Imo State. He was educated at the University College, Ibadan from 1955 to 1960 and was contemporaries with a few notable writers and poets from the college, such as Christopher Okigbo...

     (1937– )
  • Amatoritsero (Godwin) Ede
    Amatoritsero Ede
    Amatoritsero Ede is a Nigerian-Canadian poet. In 1998 he won the All-Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature with his first collection of poems, Caribbean Blues; A writer's Pains. He had written under the name "Godwin Ede"...

  • Cyprian Ekwensi
    Cyprian Ekwensi
    Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

     (1921–2007)
  • Buchi Emecheta
    Buchi Emecheta
    Dr Buchi Emecheta is an African novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen , The Bride Price , The Slave Girl and The Joys of Motherhood...

     (1944– )
  • E. Nolue Emenanjo
    E. Nolue Emenanjo
    Emmanuel Nwanolue Emenanjo, also known as ‘Nolue Emenanjo is a Nigerian scholar and writer.Born in Katsina State to Igbo parents, he is the executive director of the National Institute of Nigerian Languages, Aba and a Professor of Linguistics...

  • Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807...

     (c. 1745–97)
  • Rosemary Esehagu
    Rosemary Esehagu
    Rosemary Esehagu is a Nigerian writer. She was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, to a family of six children. In 1997, she came to the United States to advance her education. She attended Williams College, a prestigious liberal arts school in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she majored in...

      (1981– )
  • Femi Euba
    Femi Euba
    Femi Euba is a Nigerian actor and dramatist. Among the topics of his plays is Yoruba culture.-Education and career:Euba, a Lagosian by birth, studied acting at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, earning a diploma in 1965. He left Nigeria in 1970 to further his studies, attending Yale...


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  • Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa (1903–1963)
  • Adebayo Faleti
    Adebayo Faleti
    Adebayo Faleti is a Nigerian poet, writer and actor. He has attended the University of Dakar in Dakar, Senegal, the University of Ibadan, in Ibadan, Nigeria, and the Radio Netherlands Training center in Hilversum, Netherlands. Among the movies he has appeared in are Saworo-Ide,Agogo-Eewo, and...

  • Toyin Falola
    Toyin Falola
    Toyin Omoyeni Falola is a Nigerian Historian and professor of African Studies. He is currently the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Falola earned his B.A. and Ph.D. in History at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife in Nigeria...

  • Dan Fulani
    Dan Fulani
    Dan Fulani is a Nigerian fiction writer with 16 published books to his credit since 1981, who has tried to highlight development issues through his popular fiction.-References:...

  • Bilkisu Funtuwa
    Bilkisu Funtuwa
    Hajiya Bilkisu Salisu Ahmed Funtuwa is a Nigerian author. She writes novels in Hausa which focus on female Muslim protagonists. She is one of the best known writers of what is known as "Kano market literature" or Littattafan Soyayya — "books of love"...

  • Helon Habila
    Helon Habila
    Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist and poet. He won the Caine Prize for African fiction in 2001, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003....

  • Obo Aba Hisanjani
    Obo Aba Hisanjani
    Obo Aba Hisanjani is a Nigerian poet.He was born in the small village of Ajah, now a bustling marketplace. He has campaigned against the development and exploitation of the surrounding areas for purely commercial purposes...

  • Akinwunmi Isola
    Akinwunmi Isola
    Professor Akinwunmi Isola is a Nigerian playwright, actor, dramatist, culture activist and scholar. He is known for his writing in, and his work in promoting, the Yoruba language....

  • Uzodinma Iweala
    Uzodinma Iweala
    Dr. Uzodinma Iweala is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country...

  • Festus Iyayi
    Festus Iyayi
    Festus Iyayi is a Nigeria writer known for his radical and sometimes tough stance on social and political issues. Iyayi employs a realistic style of writing, depicting the social, political and moral environment and system both the rich and poor live and work in...

     (1947– )
  • Abubakar Imam
    Abubakar Imam
    Abubakar Imam was a Nigerian writer, journalist and politician from Kagara, Niger in Nigeria. For most of his life, he lived in Zaria, where he was the first Hausa editor of Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo, the pioneer Newspaper in Northern Nigeria....

  • John Jea
    John Jea
    John Jea was an African-American slave, best known for his 1811 autobiography, The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher.-Biography:...

  • Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson (Nigeria)
    Samuel Johnson was an Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba. Born a recaptive 'Creole' in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Johnson was an Omoba of the Oyo clan as a descendant of the Alaafin Abiodun of Oyo...


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  • Duro Ladipo
    Duro Ladipo
    Duro Ladipo was one of the best known and critically acclaimed Yoruba dramatists that emerged from postcolonial Africa. Writing solely in the Yoruba language, he captivated the symbolic spirit of Yoruba mythologies in his plays which were later adapted to other medium such as Photography,...

     (1931–1978)
  • Abimbola Lagunju
    Abimbola Lagunju
    Abimbola Lagunju is a Nigerian author.He studied Medicine in St Petersburg, Russia . He returned to Nigeria in the middle of the economic crisis engendered by the World Bank/IMF Structural Adjustment Program imposed on Nigeria. It was a Nigeria quite different from what he had left in 1979. The...

     (1960– )
  • Amina Mama
    Amina Mama
    Amina Mama is a Nigerian feminist writer and academic. She received her doctorate in organizational psychology from the University of London. From 1999 to 2002 she served as director of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town...

     (1958– )
  • Oliver Mbamara
    Oliver Mbamara
    Oliver O. Mbamara is a filmmaker, actor, writer, lawyer and publisher from Nigeria, West Africa.-Law career:After graduating in Law from the University of Lagos Nigeria and the Nigerian Law School, he practiced law in Nigeria while simultaneously engaging in writing scripts and poetic pieces in...

  • Sebastian Okechukwu Mezu
    Sebastian Okechukwu Mezu
    - Background :Dr. Sebastian Okechukwu Mezu was born on April 30, 1941 in Ezeogba, Emekuku, Owerri, Imo State. He received a B.A. in French with minors in German and Philosophy from Georgetown University. He obtained an LL.B. in 1966 from La Salle Extension University, Chicago, and an M.A...

     (1941– )
  • John Munonye
    John Munonye
    John Munonye is an important important Igbo writer and one of the most important Nigerian writers of the twentieth of century. He was born in Akokwa, Nigeria, and was educated at the University of Ibadan and the Institute of Education, London...

     (1929– )
  • Uche Nduka
    Uche Nduka
    Uche Nduka is a Nigerian poet, writer, lecturer and songwriter who was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry in 1997. He currently lives in New York.-Life:...

     (1963– )
  • Nkem Nwankwo
    Nkem Nwankwo
    Nkem Nwankwo was a Nigerian novelist and poet. Born in Nawfia, Nigeria, he attended University College in Ibadan...

     (1936–2001)
  • Flora Nwapa
    Flora Nwapa
    Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa. Her novel Efuru is among the first English language novels by a woman from Africa....

     (1931–1993)
  • Onuora Nzekwu
    Onuora Nzekwu
    Onuora Nzekwu is a Nigerian professor, writer and editor from the Igbo people.-Works:*Wand of Noble Wood *Blade Among the Boys *Highlife for Lizards -References:...

     (1928– )

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  • Obo Aba Hisanjani
    Obo Aba Hisanjani
    Obo Aba Hisanjani is a Nigerian poet.He was born in the small village of Ajah, now a bustling marketplace. He has campaigned against the development and exploitation of the surrounding areas for purely commercial purposes...

  • Obinna Charles Okwelume
    Obinna Charles Okwelume
    Dr. Obinna Charles Okwelume Jnr. is an African scholar, writer and playwright.-Biography:...

  • Olu Oguibe
    Olu Oguibe
    Olu Oguibe is an artist and public intellectual. Professor of Art and African-American Studies and interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New...

     (1964– )
  • Ike Oguine
    Ike Oguine
    Ike Oguine is a writer living in Lagos, Nigeria, and one of the standard-bearers of the current resurgence in Nigerian literature. As a commentator, he has written several opinion pieces for the New Internationalist, West Africa and Times Literary Supplement, and has written several short...

  • Molara Ogundipe
    Molara Ogundipe
    Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie is a Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist and activist. Considered one of the foremost writers on African feminism, gender studies and literary theory, she is a social critic who has come to be recognized as a viable authority on African women among black feminists and...

     (1949– )
  • Yemi D. Ogunyemi
    Yemi D. Ogunyemi
    Yemi D. Ogunyemi is a Nigerian writer, punster, philosopher, and founder of the Institute of Yoruba/African Narrative Philosophies.-Biography:...

     (Yemi D. Prince)
  • Tanure Ojaide
    Tanure Ojaide
    Tanure Ojaide is a prolific Nigerian poet and writer. He is noted for his unique stylistic vision and for his intense criticism of imperialism, religion, and other issues....

     (1949– )
  • Olatubosun Oladapo
    Olatubosun Oladapo
    Olatubosun Oladapo, aka Tubosun Oladapo, and Odidere Aiyekooto b. September 1943, is a folk poet who writes, and chants on record plates in the Yoruba language, for audiences chiefly in South-West Nigeria....

  • Gabriel Okara
    Gabriel Okara
    Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bomoundi in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. In 1979, he was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.-Writing:His most famous poem is "Piano and Drums"...

     (1921– )
  • Christopher Okigbo
    Christopher Okigbo
    Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as the outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.-Early life:Okigbo was born on August...

     (1932–1967)
  • Nnedi Okorafor
  • Wole Oguntokun
    Wole Oguntokun
    Wole Oguntokun is a Nigerian playwright, stage and film director, as well as a theatre administrator and newspaper columnist.-Education:Bachelor of Laws from the Obafemi Awolowo University; Master of Laws and Masters in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies, M.H.R.S. from the University of Lagos...

  • Gabriel Okara
    Gabriel Okara
    Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bomoundi in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. In 1979, he was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.-Writing:His most famous poem is "Piano and Drums"...

     (1921– )
  • Christopher Okigbo
    Christopher Okigbo
    Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as the outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.-Early life:Okigbo was born on August...

     (1932–1967)
  • Ben Okri
    Ben Okri
    Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary...

     (1959– )
  • Afolabi Olabimtan
    Afolabi Olabimtan
    Afolabi Olabimtan was a Nigerian politician, writer, and academic. He was born in Ogun State and was later the senator for Ogun West from 1999 to 2003. He died in a motor accident in August 2003....

  • Simbo Olorunfemi
    Simbo Olorunfemi
    Simbo Olorunfemi is a Nigerian poet, journalist, and business person with a background in TV production and brand management. His first poetry collection, Rhythm of the Coins, attracted praise from critics and was short listed for 1993 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize. Olorunfemi's...

  • Kole Omotosho
    Kole Omotosho
    Bankole Ajibabi Omotosho , is a Nigerian writer and intellectual known for his dedication and commitment to fusing a socio-political reappraisal of Africa and respect for human dignity into most of his works.-Early life and education:...

     (1943– )
  • Kola Onadipe
    Kola onadipe
    Nathaniel Kolawole Onadipe most commonly known as Kola Onadipe, was a Nigerian author best known for his children's books.-Biography:...

     (1922–1988)
  • Nduka Onwuegbute
    Nduka Onwuegbute
    Nduka Onwuegbute is a Nigerian British playwright, currently living in the United Kingdom.He was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of Jos, both in Nigeria.- External links :*...

     (1969– )
  • Osonye Tess Onwueme
    Osonye Tess Onwueme
    Osonye Tess Onwueme is a Nigerian playwright, scholar and poet, who rose to prominence writing plays with themes of social justice, culture, and the environment. In 2010, she became the University Professor of Global Letters, following her exceptional service as Distinguished Professor of Cultural...

     (1955– )
  • Dennis Osadebay
    Dennis Osadebay
    Dennis Chukude Osadebay was a Nigerian politician, poet, journalist and former premier of the now defunct Mid-Western Region of Nigeria, which now comprises Edo and Delta State...

     (1911–1995)
  • Femi Osofisan
    Femi Osofisan
    Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan is a Nigerian writer known for his critique of societal problems and his use of African traditional performances and surrealism in some of his novels. A frequent theme his novels explore is the conflict between good and evil...

     (1946– )
  • E.C. Osondu
    E.C. Osondu
    E. C. Osondu is a Nigerian writer known for his short stories. His story "Waiting" won the 2009 Caine Prize, for which he had been a finalist in 2007. Osondu's stories have been published in Agni, Guernica, Vice, Fiction, and The Atlantic. , his debut collection of short stories was published in...

  • Niyi Osundare
    Niyi Osundare
    Niyi Osundare is a prolific poet, dramatist and literary critic. He gained degrees at the University of Ibadan , the University of Leeds and York University, Canada...

     (1947– )
  • Helen Ovbiagele
    Helen Ovbiagele
    Helen Aiyeohusa Ovbiagele is a Nigerian novelist. She was born in Benin City, and after attending C.M.S. Girls' School, Benin City and St. Peter's College, Kaduna, she studied English and French at the University of Lagos and studied at the Institut Francais du Royaume Uni in London...

     (1944– )

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  • Remi Raji
    Remi Raji
    Aderemi Raji-Oyelade is a Nigerian poet, writing in English. He is popularly known by his pen name, Remi Raji. A Salzburg Fellow and visiting professor and writer to a number of institutions including Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Universities of California at Riverside and Irvine,...

  • Ola Rotimi
    Ola Rotimi
    Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi regarded as one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors.- Early life :...

     (1938– 2000), novelists, theater director, playwright
  • Ken Saro-Wiwa
    Ken Saro-Wiwa
    Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize...

     (1941–1995)
  • Mabel Segun
    Mabel Segun
    Mabel Segun is a Nigerian poet and writer born in Ondo, Nigeria. She attended the University of Ibadan. She was the former president of the Children's literature association of Nigeria...

     (1930– )
  • Zulu Sofola
    Zulu Sofola
    Zulu Sofola was the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist.Her parents were Igbo from Issele-Uku in Delta State. She studied at Virginia Union Baptist Seminary and The Catholic University of America and she obtained her PhD from University of Ibadan...

     (1935–1995)
  • Wole Soyinka
    Wole Soyinka
    Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

     (1934– ), awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

  • Bode Sowande
    Bode Sowande
    Bode Sowande is a Nigerian writer and dramatist, known for the theatric aesthetic of his plays about humanism and social change. He comes from a breed of writers in Nigeria that favors a post-traditional social and political landscape where the individual is the creator and maker of his own...

     (1948–)
  • Amos Tutuola
    Amos Tutuola
    Amos Tutuola was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.- Early history :Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920, where his parents Charles and Esther were Yoruba Christian cocoa farmers. When about 7 years old, he became a servant for F.O...

     (1920–1997)

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  • Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
    Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
    Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a Nigerian author. Umez's first published work of poetry, Dark through the Delta, deals with the recurring despoliation of Nigeria using the Niger Delta as its motif...

  • Obiora Udechukwu
    Obiora Udechukwu
    Obiora Udechukwu is a Nigerian painter and poet.Born in Onitsha in 1946 to parents from Agulu in Anambra State, Nigeria. He studied for one year at Ahmadu Bello University before serving in the Biafran War. He completed his bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1972, receiving his master's in 1977;...

     (1946– )
  • Adaora Lily Ulasi
    Adaora Lily Ulasi
    Adaora Lily Ulasi is a Nigerian journalist and novelist. As a journalist she has worked for the BBC and Voice of America. As a novelist she may be the first Nigerian to write detective fiction in English, "adapting the genre of the crime thriller to a Igbo or Yoruba context".-Novels:*Many Thing...

     (1932– )
  • Chika Unigwe
    Chika Unigwe
    Chika Unigwe is a Nigerian-born author and she writes in English and Dutch.Chika Unigwe has a Ph.D in Literature from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Her debut novel, De Feniks was published in 2005 by Meulenhoff and Manteau and was shortlisted for the Vrouw en Kultuur debuutprijs...

  • Mamman Jiya Vatsa
    Mamman Jiya Vatsa
    Mamman Jiya Vatsa was a Nigerian soldier and writer. He was a Major-General in the Nigerian army, Minister of the Federal Capital Abuja, and a member of the Supreme Military Council...

     (1944–1986)
  • Jumoke Verissimo
    Jumoke Verissimo
    Jumoke Verissimo is a Nigerian poet and writer. She won First Prize, Carlos Idize Ahmad Prize for a first book of Poetry 2009, Second Prize, Anthony Agbo Prize for Poetry 2009 and Honourable Mention Association of Nigeria 2009. The Punch describes her as, 'one of those who will change the face of...

  • Ken Wiwa
    Ken Wiwa
    Ken Wiwa , also known as Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr., is a Nigerian journalist and author. His book In the Shadow of a Saint is a memoir of his father, executed activist and political prisoner Ken Saro-Wiwa....

    (1968– )
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