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  2. List of Nigerian poets - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Ifeanyi Menkiti - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Niyi Osundare - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Category:Nigerian poets - Wikipedia

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  6. Chinua Achebe Poetry and Essay Anthology - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Bolaji Ramos - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Ifi Amadiume - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Ada Udechukwu - Wikipedia

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    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.