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This is a list of notable poets from Nigeria This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Idé Adamou (1951– ), poet and novelist; Ousmane Amadou (1948–2018), poet, novelist, lawyer and journalist; Djibo Bakary (1922–1998), politician and writer; Ada Boureïma, writer
Pages in category "Nigerian poets" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In 1988, his collection of poems Mandela's Earth, and Other Poems was published, while in Nigeria another collection of essays, entitled Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture, appeared. In the same year, Soyinka accepted the position of Professor of African Studies and Theatre at Cornell University. [83]
Mildred Barya, Uganda; Ali Birra, Ethiopia; J. Benibengor Blay, Ghana; Kwesi Brew, Ghana; Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, Côte d'Ivoire; Tanella Boni, Côte d'Ivoire ...
Casualties: Poems 1966–68 (USA: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1970), which illustrate the horrendous events of the Nigeria-Biafra war; A Decade of Tongues (Longmans, Drumbeat series, 1981), a collection of 74 poems, all of which apart from "Epilogue to Casualties" (dedicated to Michael Echeruo) were previously published in earlier volumes;
This is a list of Nigerian writers A. Chris Abani, 2019 Chinua Achebe, 1966 Ayobami Adebayo, 2018 Saheed Aderinto, 2016. Chris Abani (born ...
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. [4]