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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 .
Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1940. [1] In 1961, he arrived in the United States to study at Pomona College, where he graduated in 1964. [1] [3] Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1974. [7] [8] His dissertation was "a study of collective ...
Niyi Osundare is a Nigerian poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on 12 March 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, [1] Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African-American, Latin American, Asian, and European.
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Organized by the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (Anambra State) in association with the Chinua Achebe Literary Festival and Memorial Lecture, [5] [6] the anthology was initiated in 2016 by Izunna Okafor, a Nigerian writer and journalist who also serves as the Editor-in-Chief.
His poem titled "Another Verse for Bola", a suggestive love (birthday) poem written in 2010 was shortlisted as one of the best love poems and published by Forward Poetry UK. [11] In 2016, Ramos wrote a very popular poetic rejoinder to Professor Niyi Osundare's poem that satirized the Nigerian Judiciary and legal profession titled "My Lord ...
Association of Nigerian Authors 1992 Literary Award for Poetry. ISBN 978-1856498067; Returning; Circles of Love, Africa World Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1592214891; Voices Draped in Black, Africa World Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1592215935; Contributor on Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria, Amalion Publishing, 2014 ISBN 978-2359260335
Born in the city of Enugu, southeastern part of Nigeria, Udechukwu is the daughter of an Igbo father and an American mother. [1]When the Eastern part of Nigeria attempted to break out of Nigeria to form what was called the Republic of Biafra, this led to a civil war in Nigeria which was generally called the Biafran war of 1967–70.